Idries Shah Quotes
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.Idries Shah
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment -
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.
J. B. Smoove -
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
Maeve Binchy -
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Beatrice Wood
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Taylor Caldwell -
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans -
You have to be yourself.
Young Thug -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman -
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
Victor Ponta -
I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
Washed Out -
If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
Tahl Raz -
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
Eden Sher -
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
Dale Dauten -
It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes
Christina Stead -
I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
Pablo Schreiber -
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
Olivier Theyskens -
I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.
Ezra Furman -
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah