Idries Shah Quotes

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

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• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Hero
  • Now

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Girlfriend

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Best

• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Control
  • Movies
  • Television

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Important

• When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Music

• It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Passionate
  • Actually
  • Thinks

• When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

  

  Gene Weingarten
  • She
  • Daughter

• I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Party
  • Kind

• If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Progress
  • Turn
  • Murderer