Simin Daneshvar Quotes
I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.
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America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.
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I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
