"If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?""

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Source : "US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

Hooman Majd

#Guy Quotes #Done Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”

Source : Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.3, Octagon Press Ltd
“When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.”

Source : Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.114, NYU Press
“The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.”
“What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.”
“He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.”
“Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.”
“People lose their way when they lose their Why”

Source : Michael Hyatt, Daniel Harkavy (2016). “Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want”, p.38, Baker Books
“That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”

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