Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I love cycling.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
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My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
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Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
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My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
