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Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: iranian
Birth: May 29, 1957

Topics

Business World Dirty Why Outside

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Andrea Arnold

Life Nature Love Go Up Wandering

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Robert Frank

Reaction Always Photograph Oneself

My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.

Roisin Murphy

Family Father Mother Business Class

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'

Mickey Drexler

Employee Call Like Word Associates

When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, 'Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.

Michael Korda

Work Break Started Got Us Give

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Law Thought Results Place First

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

Dominic Cooper

Funny Think Doing Never Out Working

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

Dick Durbin

Right Minority Been Before Exalted

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.

Donovan

Father Mother Art Generation Holiday

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

Ari Graynor

Beauty Classic Little Quirky Offbeat

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Audrey Tautou

Someone Seem Who Likes Profession

I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.

Winnie Harlow

Good Focus Yourself Celebrate Think