Idries Shah Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.
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My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
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If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
