Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
-
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
-
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
-
Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
-
I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
-
We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
-
The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
-
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
-
I'll back up anything my dad says.
-
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
-
I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.
-
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
-
How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?
-
Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
-
You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
-
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
-
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
-
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
-
Music is about the performance.
-
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
