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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Abbas Kiarostami
You
Politician
Visa
Iran
Quickly
Get
Ask
Businessman
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
Abbas Kiarostami
Pride
National
Feel
Know
Proud
Am
Iranian
Happen
Unfortunate
Whether
Fortunate
Who
Thing
Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
Abbas Kiarostami
You
Creative
Creativity
Face
Single
Become
Every
Films
Member
Out
Find
Some
Particular
Like
Because
Audience
Audience Member
Bed
Provide
Movie
Happen
Which
Movies
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
Your
Bring
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami
Politics
Humanity
Political
Society
Films
Say
Anchored
Would
Deals
Any
Apolitical
Film
Necessarily
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Needs
Basic Needs
People
First
Meeting
Only
Pursue
Higher
Concern
Any
Afterwards
Themselves
Basic
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Abdolkarim Soroush
People
Other
Some
Attention
Name
Banner
Centre
Themselves
Many
Things
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Truth
Islam
Difficult
Religious
Between
Most
Identity
Equilibrium
Intellectuals
Tasks
Establishing
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Become
Clear
Answers
Questions
Order
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
People
Will
Group
Humiliated
Honour
Has-Been
Take
Shapes
Feels
Underfoot
Identity
Been
Trampled
Different
Want
Forms
Different Shapes
Express
Expression
There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Leader
Submit
Cries
Sides
Negotiation
Be Prepared
Both
Both Sides
Take
Leaders
Supreme
Sort
Green
Movement
Place
Themselves
Should
Prepared
Serious
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Nature
Religion
Will
Made
Ideology
Islam
Become
Totalitarian
Ideologies
Because
Any
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Energy
Has-Been
Physicists
Observable
Concept
Known
Been
Anywhere
Thing
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Problems
Down
Define
Consist
Bits
Must
Components
Tackle
Small
Concepts
Break
Explain
Use
Compromise has a negative connotation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Negative
Compromise
Connotation
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Religion
You
Will
First
Become
Living
Secondary
Secured
Through
Clergy
Then
Interests
Your
Defend
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Spiritual
Benefits
Administration
Religious
Rational
Remain
Affairs
Human
Human Beings
While
Beings
Enjoying
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Humanity
Impossible
Will
Realistic
Proliferation
Stop
View
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
Abdolkarim Soroush
You
Impossible
Pressure
Advance
New
Particular
Dogma
Influence
View
Theories
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush
Freedom
History
Justice
People
President
Bitterest
Risky
Journalism
Voted
Wishes
Contemporary
Policies
Blocked
Been
Cultural
Iran
Iranian
Should
Means
Ignored
Who
Incident
Activities
Why
Millions
Millions Of People
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Government
Otherwise
Claim
Religious
Longer
Democratic
Genuinely
Cannot
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Religion
Respect
Problems
Jews
No Problems
Highly
Judaism
Holy
There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
World
Doubt
We Cannot
No Doubt
Superpower
America
Cannot
Them
Ignore
I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Wait
Insecurity
Gone
Think
Complaint
Significant
Outcome
See
Counting
Well
Although
Been
Ballots
Iraq
Far
Much
Elections
The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Good
Freedom
People
Matter
Important
Want
Them
Us
Choose
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Memories
People
States
Bad
Any
United
United States
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Government
Problems
States
Always
Any
United
United States
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