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

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

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• 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

• 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
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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.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
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• Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Art
  • Together

• Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • She
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• Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Good
  • May
  • Shoes

• One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Best
  • Can
  • One

• They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Question

• Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

  

  John L. Phillips
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Walking

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

  

  Azar Nafisi