"The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Past Quotes #Rights Quotes #Iran Quotes

“I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.”
“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”

Source : Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown
“This is not a problem. Iâ€™m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then Iâ€™m going to shoot. One good result and Iâ€™m coming back. This is a distraction, itâ€™s the calm before the storm,”
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
“White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.”

Source : Sylvia Wolf, Dieter Appelt, Wieland Schmied (1994). “Dieter Appelt”, Art Institute of Chicago
“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.”
“We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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