Azar Nafisi Quotes

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Azar Nafisi

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When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

Andrew Solomon

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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Jeanne Moreau

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The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing.

Tony Rock

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I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Ronnie Wood

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I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

Ruth Bernhard

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Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Michael O'Donoghue

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This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

Juice Newton

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My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Susannah McCorkle

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I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

Pep Guardiola

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Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack.

Shawn Amos

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