Navid Negahban Quotes
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Women are sacred.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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If I saw me, I’d want to speak to me too. I’d think, ‘that guy looks like he’s form Mars, he’s somehow strangely compelling.’
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I had walked away from the music industry because I had a certain integrity and all that.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
