#ff

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bad #bad idea #duties #effects #idea

Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#connection #country #difficulties #each #emotional

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#affecting #complex #feel #i #i feel

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#because #difficult #gotten #iran #mixed

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #better #break #clouds #doubted

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#autonomy #been #comfortable #comforting #different

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#audiences #because #been #benefits #between

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#different #different angles #especially #good #iranian

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#any #art #art form #bad #form

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?' ↗

— Anna Torv

#australia #differently #fall #flat #i