"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."

-- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Identity Quotes

“My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.”

Source : "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.
“The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.”
“My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest are just pictures of turtles. I remember they had Galapagos tortoises that they had somehow imported illegally and a bunch of other turtles too. I like the animals themselves. They're so self-possessed and self-contained and there's something wise and mysterious about them. I also like that they are prehistoric animals.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
“Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.”
“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”
“What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.”
“Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.”

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