Ali Banisadr Quotes

People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, because it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

Ali Banisadr

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• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mind

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Mistake
  • Deserve

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Personality
  • Sexy
  • Awesome

• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • War
  • Education
  • Alone

• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Matter
  • Stars
  • Seems

• These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is always right - to such an extent that they refuse to believe even the most overwhelming scientific evidence if it seems to suggest a justification for government action.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Conservatives

• I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Done
  • Together
  • Happy

• The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Different
  • Goal
  • Constitution

• People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, because it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • Artwork