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Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

Bahman Ghobadi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Generation View Worry Plan

The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

Jerry Lewis

King Me Crazy Comedy Play Way

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Robert Owen

Good Men You Depend Serve May

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

Anna D. Shapiro

Good Myself People Think Bad Pretty

I would love to do better in mainstream Hindi films, but one thing I must say is that my best experience so far has been in the Punjabi film industry, where I've been around for more than 11 years.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

Love Best Experience Better Say

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

Jeff Nichols

Child Old First Years Mark Bottled

Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.

Trevor Paglen

Law Think Easy You Create Channels

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Roger Ailes

America Bad Wrong Same Report How

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Ruth Bernhard

Life Me Way More Everything Pursue

For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

Mary H.K. Choi

Job Red College Find Cap Heat

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Michael Moore

Live People Poverty You Security

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

Missy Elliott

Singing Kid Always Porch Would

The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.

Jay DeMarcus

Me Opinions Sometimes Want Way Band