Azadeh Moaveni Quotes
I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
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I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.
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I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.
