Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba) Quotes

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

Farah Pahlavi

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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

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• I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

  

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• I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.

  

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• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

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• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

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• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

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• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

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• I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.

  

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• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

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• By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.

  

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• I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.

  

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• Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

  

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• To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

  

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• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

  

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• Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

  

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• Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

  

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• 'It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.'

  

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• I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

  

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• I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

  

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• France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

  

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  

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• For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.

  

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• I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

  

  Farah Pahlavi