Azar Nafisi Quotes
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
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When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
