Ashraf Dehghani Quotes
A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
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The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
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Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
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I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.
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Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.
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A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
