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Azar Nafisi Quotes

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Revolution Rules Implementation Were

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

Time Play Tone Pretty Knew Much

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

Fashion Think Go Hand I Think

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Change Great War People Color You

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

Passion Great Perspective Me Team

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

People Find Little Seem Pathetic

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Thought Eternity Us Even Eludes

'The Daily Show' is a cultural phenomenon.

Daily Show Cultural Phenomenon

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Michael Specter

Value People Facts Ignore Nothing

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

Me Think Wrong Matter Bench Racial

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

Work Live Day Slavery Free America

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.

Good Character Teacher Myself Me

If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.

Uniform Jeans Wearing Were

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