Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.
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Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
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Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
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Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
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I have a beer belly.
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I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
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I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.
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Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
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The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
