Reza Aslan Quotes

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Reza Aslan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: May 3, 1972

Topics

YourselfGoWayFictionDaysFew

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

Joe Pantoliano

WorkGoodGreatBetterYouOver

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

Jesse Helms

LeaderOpportunityHopeFreedom

Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

Joel Salatin

AgricultureBe TrueKnowTrueEggs

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

Jennifer Egan

WorkIdeasWayBeginKeepKnew

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Jeff Raikes

BetterLearnYouBadResultsTeach

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Simone Biles

MyselfKeepSurprisingJustGuess

I'm not a person who's interested in getting involved with politics just to get involved with them, and I don't need to.

Shonda Rhimes

PoliticsPersonNeedGetJustThem

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

Tom Golisano

YouEntrepreneurPenniesWatchBeing

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Molly Bloom

SuccessPowerMeaningYouKnowMore

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

Lukas Forchhammer

MusicChildrenPastSongYouPerson

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Jose Serrano

PeopleGroupCrimePrejudiceRealize

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

Jason O'Mara

EatingSundayIrishUpBeingRoast

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