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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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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'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
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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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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
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I am glad I have given my family the life I wanted for them. That is my responsibility.
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If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?
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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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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.
