Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
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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.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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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.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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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.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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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.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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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.
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We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis.
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
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People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
