Azita Ghanizada Quotes

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

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• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Political
  • Air

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• We are what we believe we are.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Brainy

• I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Giving

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • College

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Day
  • Brand
  • Queen

• Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

  

  Blake Edwards
  • Help

• Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Ambition

• I can't stand that asshole Ryan Seacrest and here's why. He can't sing. He can't dance. He has no talent. When is he gonna go away?

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Why
  • Dance
  • Asshole

• I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

  

  Azita Ghanizada
  • Music
  • Country