Akbar Ganji Quotes

It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

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• There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

  

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• But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

  

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• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

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• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

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• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

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• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

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• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

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• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

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• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

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• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

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• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

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• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

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• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

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• I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

  

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• I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.

  

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• God helps those who fear Him.

  

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• My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

  

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• After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

  

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• There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

  

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• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  

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• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

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• It's all good pressure. We're a very focused group, understanding what's in front of us.

  

  Antoine Walker
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• It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Pressure
  • Release