#present

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

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#interesting #interesting stories #just #present #qualify

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. ↗

— John Negroponte

#consensus #country #does #hard #out

Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#box office #does #dvd #income #more

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#allies #america #coalition #country #east

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise. ↗

— James Newman

#even #extremely #feeling #may #otherwise

The future influences the present just as much as the past. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#influences #just #much #past #present