Nazanin Boniadi Quotes
For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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Every goal for me is to be a leader on the court every time I step on the court.
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My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.
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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
