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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban
You
Yourself
Will
Shoes
Else
Way
See
Someone
Put
Feel
Fair
Reacting
Understand
How
Behaving
Just
Then
Why
Need
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi
War
People
Stupid
East
Between
Stupid People
Real
West
Intelligent
Real War
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
Bahman Ghobadi
Life
Hope
Myself
People
New Life
Energy
Believe
Once
See
Born
Given
Only
Feel
New
Like
Been
Child
Full
Used
Reborn
Now
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
Marjane Satrapi
Life
You
People
World
Dangerous
Evil
Real Life
Beginning
Way
Everywhere
Some
Part
Abstract
Name
Calling
Reduce
Geographical
Narrow-Minded
Terrorists
Real
Fanatic
Fanatics
Place
Them
Notion
Fascism
Start
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
God
Best
Rich
Humility
Those
Magnanimity
Loved
Poor
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
Wisdom
You
Ignorance
Yourself
Will
Others
Admire
Argue
Wiser
Another
Discover
Than
May
Whenever
Order
Your
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
Azar Nafisi
Success
People
Vision
Negative
Side
Destroys
Dream
Cost
Pursue
American
Any
American Dream
Which
Turn
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
Respect
Rights
Achieve
Diplomacy
Approach
Address
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Objectives
Constructive
Shared
Counterparts
Footing
Equal
Concerns
Mean
Means
Engaging
Basis
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Reza Aslan
Religion
People
Ideology
Make
Justify
Bigots
Use
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi
God
Fear
Fear God
Him
Mostly
Them
Next
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
Marjane Satrapi
World
Smoking
Hell
Would
Am
Go
Go To Hell
Quit
Want
Convinced
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi
God
Worships
Seldom
He
His
Stomach
Who
Slave
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi
Great
Together
Great Deal
Drop
Single
Consists
Collected
Make
Deal
Becomes
Heap
Grains
Little
Barn
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
Religion
Rights
Human Rights
Every
Component
Civilization
Human
Standard
Universal
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Work
Together
World
Internet
Differences
Living
Our
Way
No Difference
Similarities
More
Small
More And More
Put
Like
Global
Difference
Aside
Work Together
Realize
Successful
Whole
Village
Starting
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
Ali Khamenei
Rights
Human Rights
Most
Also
Issue
Issues
Controversial
Human
Sensitive
Fundamental
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
Asghar Farhadi
Hope
Day
You
Creative
Fight
Sunshine
Walk
Censorship
Weather
Bit
One Day
Out
Sunny
Restrictions
Like
Passive
Iran
Iranian
Lot
Just
Whenever
Them
Next
Means
Creative Expression
Expression
Raining
British
Filmmakers
I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.
Golshifteh Farahani
Life
Regret
My Life
Everything
Period
Am
Done
Anything
Happens
Reason
Why
Here
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.
Hassan Rouhani
You
People
Law
Free
Country
Believe
Medicine
Fact
Free Trade
Clear
Development
For The People
Trade
Quite
Bank
Human
In Fact
Human Development
Sanction
Sanctions
Meaning
Meaning Of
Unilateral
International
International Law
Actually
Growth
Violate
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
Marjane Satrapi
Life
You
People
Bad People
Beginning
Pay
Nice
Complex
Bad
Until
Redemption
Always
End
Person
Any
Notion
Who
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
Marjane Satrapi
Writing
Human Being
First
Drawing
Human
Being
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
Marjane Satrapi
Time
Improvise
Every
Changes
Every Time
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Everything
Everything Changes
Say
Bore
Write
Never
Open
Freestyle
Another
Very
Going
Program
Speeches
All big changes of the world come from words.
Marjane Satrapi
Words
World
Big
Changes
Come
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Myself
People
Lost
Had
Between
Adviser
Built
Woke
Up
Wall
Happening
Realize
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
Reza Aslan
People
Nothing
Gathering
Sick
Way
Claiming
Followers
About
Fact
Through
Name
Know
Messiah
Demons
Were
False
Walked
Curing
Did
In Fact
So-Called
Rome
Land
Holy
Holy Land
Who
Many
Unique
Challenging
Dozens
Jesus
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
People
Ugly
Rich
Sight
He
Feet
Crying
Himself
His
Up
Blushing
Peacock
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