"Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?"

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Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 281, 1991.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#Country Quotes

“The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
“I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.”
“The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.”
“My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.”
“The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.”
“Sometimes losing a series regular, if you're going to replace them with another series regular, that will put added pressure on your budget.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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