Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
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In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
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Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
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Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
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Time goes on even when we do not.
