Idries Shah Quotes
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Time was God's first creation.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.
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A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
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Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.
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Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
