Negin Farsad Quotes
Culture creates awareness around issues, it entertains and saddens, it can encourage commitment to a social contract or strengthen personal hygiene in public. Culture is that powerful. Culture creates the icons we follow, that we see ourselves in, that we orient ourselves toward. It's culture that tells us to love or hate, accept or tolerate, embrace or reject.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I was always... naive enough to not know what I could not accomplish.
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The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Culture creates awareness around issues, it entertains and saddens, it can encourage commitment to a social contract or strengthen personal hygiene in public. Culture is that powerful. Culture creates the icons we follow, that we see ourselves in, that we orient ourselves toward. It's culture that tells us to love or hate, accept or tolerate, embrace or reject.
