Azar Nafisi Quotes

What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.

Azar Nafisi

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• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Beautiful
  • Wedding
  • White

• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Reality
  • Down
  • Normal

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Look

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Song
  • Dream

• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Reality

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Job

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Support
  • Violence
  • Gun

• The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Giving

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Father
  • Wonderful

• What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Reality