Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
Tamzin Merchant -
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar Fiedler -
In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
Tamsin Greig -
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Samuel E. Morison -
The world’s been waiting, they’ve been waiting for years And they’ve just gotta hear it The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears So open your arms and sing for us
Zooey Deschanel -
The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.
Ory Okolloh -
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright -
Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
Matthew Heineman
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The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
Lionel Shriver -
If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.
Ngaio Marsh -
In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.
Frank Ocean -
When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
Anna Kournikova -
The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.
Jamais Cascio -
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
Amy Ryan
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I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
Anson Mount -
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
Lafcadio Hearn -
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
Pink -
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul -
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi