Akbar Ganji Quotes
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Honesty will never break you.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
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Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy are absolutely the next great race for industry.
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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
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I actually don't mind it. It's the ultimate kind of pop art statement in a way, if you think about it.
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So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
