Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
-
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
-
I am always locked in my design studio.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
-
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
-
I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
-
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
-
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
-
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
-
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
-
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
-
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
-
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
-
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
-
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
-
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
-
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.
-
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
-
Like a girl, but a girl who had always been a woman.
-
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
