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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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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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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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
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We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.
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Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million times before, but it will never end because what we're up against keeps morphing, and we have to figure out how to beat it.
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Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
