Tahereh Mafi Quotes

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

Tahereh Mafi

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Business
- Humanity
- Movies
How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

Carlos Slim
- Business
- Think
- Numbers
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

Ian McLagan Small Faces
- Up
- Now
- Tough
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

Vincent Cassel
- Up
- Watching
- Bull
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

T. C. Boyle
- Why
- Funny
- Hate
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

Bayard Taylor
- Life
- Long
- Man