"If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world."

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Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.1930, Penguin UK

Hooman Majd

#Iran Quotes #Political Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.”
“I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.”
“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art.. ..He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object".”

Source : "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.
“You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.”

Source : Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”
“In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable”
“I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.”

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