Haleh Afshar Quotes

And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.

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• I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Great
  • Live
  • City

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Thing
  • Evidence
  • Only

• Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Ability

• The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Running
  • Senate

• There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Scope

• Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

  

  Plato
  • Delight
  • Equals
  • Proverb

• If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

  

  Mr. T
  • Knowledge
  • Enjoy
  • Read

• Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Ourselves
  • Seek

• If you want to become a super club you have to be ready to play against super clubs. In the past couple of years, we've seen a mentality that has emerged that our players aren't on the field to get autographs. It's an opportunity to prove what we've been shouting from the rooftops for a long time, that we've been producing quality players and we can play with the best teams in the world.

  

  Alexi Lalas
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Club

• Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.

  

  Daniel Byman
  • Attention
  • Nothing
  • Pay

• It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Focus
  • Achieve
  • Authority

• I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

  

  La India
  • God
  • Love
  • Mother

• I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Stills
  • Photographer

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Threat
  • Terrorist
  • Muslim

• And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.

  

  Haleh Afshar
  • Muslim