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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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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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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I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
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I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.
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If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.
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Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.
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Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.
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I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.
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If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf.
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The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
