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.
Zachary Quinto -
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
Rachael Ray -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
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.
Ice T -
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.
Ursus Wehrli -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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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.
Hannah Arendt -
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.'
Bat for Lashes -
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang -
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino -
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player
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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.
Ian Hacking -
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.
Malcolm X -
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer -
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.
C. S. Forester -
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.
Rachel Platten -
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Nancy Friday
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I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
Joanne Harris -
When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
AnnaLynne McCord -
The way to do well is to do well.
Donald Rumsfeld -
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
Oriana Fallaci -
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
Idries Shah