Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba) Quotes
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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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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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If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be
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I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.
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Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
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If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
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Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
