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Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: iranian
Birth: February 1, 1969

Topics

Music Censorship Film Atmosphere

I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.

Work Morning Children Time Walk

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Faith Innovation Creativity Talent

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Forgiveness Know Hardest Oneself

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Andre Leon Talley

Risks Take Only Couture

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

Myself Talent Waiting Luck Saying

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

Michael Beasley

Proud Feel Seasons You Perfect Know

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

Technology Because Get Weapon He

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'

College Trying Want Decide Own Hire

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

American Reason Interest Humanitarian

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Health Time Limits Environment Try

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

Me End You Sound Inside Head

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Funny School Shy Very Really

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