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Azar Nafisi Quotes

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Success Vision American Dream People

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

Family Education College Mom Living

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Law Liberty Every

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

Past You Go Anywhere

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

John Shelby Spong

Life Believe Guilt Humanity New Sin

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

Game Doing Play Himself Teaches

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

Mary-Kate Olsen

School I Am Bad I Can Nervous Test

Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true.

Dream True Working Come Would

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Jordan Peterson

People World Within Capacity Set

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

Father Respect Me Safety Outdoors

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

Bad Person Know Done Things May

As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.

Walk Fashion Reading You Find Down

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

Failure Myself People Writing Think

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