Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

Bahman Ghobadi

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• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Military
  • Service

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
  • Black
  • See

• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Man
  • Law
  • Couple

• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Wind
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Together
  • Magic
  • London

• I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Like
  • Cheat

• I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Talk

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • School
  • Promise

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Quality
  • Argument

• That's the beauty of being in the driver's seat. We've got options.

  

  Leonard Ellerbe
  • Options
  • Driver
  • Seat

• What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • She
  • Teacher

• When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Today

• I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Beginning

• For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Live
  • Food
  • Me