Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
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It's all about giving it your best in whatever you've got.
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I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
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I'm not the kind of guy who hems and haws about how he feels.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
