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Azar Nafisi Quotes

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Passion Literature Always Been Books

Every sport has its dangers. I've been pretty lucky, knock on wood. But I've had really confident, brave and smart horses growing up, which I think is important when you're young. You are working with massive animals over big fences, and especially at this top level, there is really no room for error.

Jessica Springsteen

Smart Brave Growing Up Think You

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

Michael Berryman

Religion Opinion Better Problem You

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

Michael C. Hall

Space Pressure You Nothing Mean Yes

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.

Religion Church You Achieve Say Way

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

Choice Matter Repeat Cannot Maintain

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

Hair You Know Drummer Her Four

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

Michelle Carter

Church Know Up Anything Different

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

Support People Writing America Want

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

Jonny Greenwood

Writing Feel Worry Doing More Sound

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

Music Beach Group Superstar

There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.

Impact Born Excitement More First

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

Together Colors Waves Thought You

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