Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• 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.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Moments

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Dirty

• 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.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Career
  • Style
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • War
  • Racism
  • Loyalty

• I have a beer belly.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Beer

• I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • America

• I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Funny
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Professional

• I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.

  

  Pauly D
  • Good
  • Single
  • Travel

• The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

  

  Mario Batali
  • American
  • Food
  • Passion

• Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Way
  • Self
  • Events

• We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Lessons

• In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Fire

• Basically, I feel like people have always taken photos of themselves. When I was in college, I had these Polaroid cameras my friends and I would have so much fun with. Today, we'd be taking those pictures on our phones. I think it's just part of culture today... Why not have fun with it?

  

  Eva Chen
  • Phones
  • My Friends
  • I Feel Like

• The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Thinking
  • Destroyed
  • Afghanistan