Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
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There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
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Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
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I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.
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I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
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The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
