Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.
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Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
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Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).
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Europe can be saved.
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Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.
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I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
