"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."

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Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.

Shirin Ebadi

#Views Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table.”
“We need a doer, not a talker.”
“My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.”
“In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well”
“I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.”

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“When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious can slip through more easily. The way that I write songs, for what its worth, when I'm playing music, if it's good music it will bring images forward into my mind and then I'll write down what the images are and that becomes the lyrics. I think that process is just easier if the superego has just gone away in disgust for the day.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“For you to have real love, you need to be able to move past your self.”
“No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.”

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