Asghar Farhadi Quotes

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Heroine
  • Patti Smith

• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Believe
  • America
  • Bad

• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Kiss
  • Parenting

• Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Service
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Being

• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Know
  • Evidence

• For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Thinking
  • Find
  • Research

• I like to do all kinds of films.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Like
  • Films
  • Kinds

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • Pretty
  • Sibling

• Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Belief
  • Tradition

• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  

  Barbara
  • Pain
  • Financial
  • Broken

• I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

  

  Michelle Kwan
  • Success
  • Knows
  • Preparation

• The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

  

  Asghar Farhadi