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Azar Nafisi Quotes

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Women History Past Present Rights

I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.

Understand Way Therapist Than Some

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

Michael Bisping

Fight People Me Opinion Write Off

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.

Stephen J. Dubner

Walls Sister Church Friends Look

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

Life Family Three More Old Lived

When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.

Home Travel Reading Holiday I Can

I never really planned on doing a television series.

Judah Friedlander

Doing Television Never Planned

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

Me You Want More Tell Something

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

Myself Doing Television See

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

Douglas Brinkley

War World Name Battle World War I

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Work Time Culture Spending Time Easy

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family Father Food Year Train Go

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Confidence Sports Me Easy Go Skill

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