Azar Nafisi Quotes

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

Azar Nafisi

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

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Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

Ann Druyan

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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

John Shelby Spong

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I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Amy Heckerling

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I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

Sterling K. Brown

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All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Robert Zoellick

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When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Ron Ben-Israel

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I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

Michael Sheen

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Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Moby

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I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first.

Lucas Hedges

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Joss Whedon

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When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

Dick Dale

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