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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• It began to worry me that I could never possibly settle in England now, not after Tokyo nude-shows and sliced green chillies, brown children sluicing at the road-pump, the air-conditioned hum in bedrooms big as ballrooms, negligible income-tax, curry tiffins, being the big man in the big car, the bars of all the airports of Africa and the East.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Children
  • Car
  • Air

• Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.

  

  Anatole France

• New is easy. Right is hard.

  

  Craig Federighi

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Age

• The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Space

• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Internet
  • Shopping

• As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Thinking
  • Distance

• 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