Azar Nafisi Quotes

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

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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.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Want
  • Know
  • Thought

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Vision
  • Solution

• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Generation

• I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Movies

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Language

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• 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!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Chance
  • Acting
  • Swimming

• World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Religious
  • Humanity

• We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Move
  • Moved

• I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • War
  • Think
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Right
  • Need
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Money
  • Film
  • Learned

• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • True
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

  

  Jairam Ramesh

• For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • God

• The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Laws
  • Commonwealth

• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

  Azar Nafisi