Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes
We've never declared war on anybody. We Iran defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.Mohammad Javad Zarif
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins -
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle -
Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
Vera Wang
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus -
I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith -
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
Valerie June -
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Tavi Gevinson -
I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
Oscar Nunez
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
E. L. Doctorow -
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
Adam Cohen -
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz -
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle -
We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.
Samuel Adams -
I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..
Jackson Pollock
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One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
Keanu Reeves -
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Aldous Huxley -
Men should come with instruction booklets.
Cathy Guisewite -
We've never declared war on anybody. We Iran defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.
Mohammad Javad Zarif