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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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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.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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You have to be yourself.
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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.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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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.
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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.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I can paint in jail.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.
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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.
