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Shirin Ebadi Quotes

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: June 21, 1947

Topics

Religion Civilization Human Rights

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

Character Great Day I Am Body Young

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

Great Time Me Writing Never Many

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

Life Time Saying You Say Want

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

Disappointment Me Back Nothing Up

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Love Music Football People Think

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

Mireille Guiliano

Women Business Suits Find Sneakers

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Time Right Time Need Right Tell

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Jose Maria Aznar

Legal Security Resolutions Iraq

I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

Christina Hendricks

Myself Money Men Beginning Dress

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Positive History Light World Better

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

Time Death Saying Remember Artist

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Me Face Pressure Duck Trying Quit

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