Haleh Afshar Quotes
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
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Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.
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We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.
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However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
