Azar Nafisi Quotes

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

Azar Nafisi

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FreedomPastDemocracyPresentHuman

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Joe Clark

SometimesTwoExpectBearsMatch

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.

Andre Ward

GameBe DifferentPlanOpponentSame

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

John Stuart Mill

GoodWarCharityMatterComplete

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

Ronnie James Dio

GoodMusicMeStartOpportunities

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

Rupert Friend

TruthEmpathyStartBelieveYou

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.

Michael Korda

ExperiencePositionOppositionUs

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

Don Cheadle

ThinkYouLookResumeKindMap

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Bristol Palin

LifeMotherLieMy LifeYouLesson

In Norway, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is very supportive of each other. If there is anyone new, or a new song is coming out, everyone will probably know about it.

Astrid S

SongNewKnowWillEveryoneOut

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Publilius Syrus

HonorLoseLostNothingMoreWho

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Scott Cook

BusinessMeSucceedRevolutionDream

When you have to stop and think about things is when they go wrong.

Tim Duncan

ThinkYouWrongStopGoThings

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