Nazanin Boniadi Quotes
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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There's no business like show business.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
