Nazanin Boniadi Quotes
My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I just want to do my job.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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I really love stories about women.
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From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
