Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba) Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
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What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
