Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
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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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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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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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The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
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I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.
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Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
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Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
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Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
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My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
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If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.
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The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
