Idries Shah Quotes
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
Idries Shah
Quotes to Explore
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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
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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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
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
Pam Bondi
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
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My forte is awkwardness.
Zach Galifianakis
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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
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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
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
Vincent Cassel
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Zadie Smith
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That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
Bode Miller
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I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
Linda Perry
4 Non Blondes
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
Federica Mogherini
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
Idries Shah
