Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
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I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
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You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
