Tahereh Mafi Quotes

I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.

Tahereh Mafi

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
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• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
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• I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

  

  Uday Kotak
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• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

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• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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• I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

  

  Arthur Ashe
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• I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
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  • Men