Azar Nafisi Quotes

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Azar Nafisi

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Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Jodi Picoult

WifeWomanMomAmericanQuestions

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

Johannes Heesters

LifeWaitingWrongNothingLived

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Robert Klein

DreamsWomanDreamHotSheNaked

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

John Rocha

CollegeMeNobodyLeftExpectedDid

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

Solange Knowles

PracticeFoundationSelf-LoveYou

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

Skylar Astin

MyselfPeopleThinkSeriouslyTake

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Martin O'Malley

RoadsBridgesRepairRebuildUpgrade

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Monica Johnson

SometimesSeeUpOwnObviousOur

If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

Joseph Parker

GreatTrainingWorldI CanTrain

'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.

Colin Firth

GreatPeopleThinkEnoughLongYou

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Ashley Jensen

LifeDayMy LifeOutPointGoing

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

Atul Gawande

PeopleWayOthersMoreHumanDepend

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