Mariam Naficy Quotes

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Mariam Naficy

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Job
  • Best

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • America
  • Reality

• I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • World
  • Heart
  • Woman

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?'

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Done
  • Small

• Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minted's community votes to tell us what to sell.

  

  Mariam Naficy
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