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.
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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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So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.
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You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
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I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.
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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.
