Bijan Pakzad (Bijan) Quotes
The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world.
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Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference to the cause of liberty in his remarks. To be effective in such teaching, we must begin by inspiring in each heart the faith that the Constitution of the United States was written by inspired men whom God raised up for that very purpose.
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Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.
