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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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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Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.
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Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on 'Instagram' to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
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Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.
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Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
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I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
