#imp

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#importance #important #individual #only #society

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#follow #head #important #keep #right

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#creative #creative person #even #important #involving

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#drastically #game #get #improves #play

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#form #free #given #important #our

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#colonial #complex #knows #may #philistine

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#alone #changing #constantly #foreseeable #foreseeable future