#sm

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

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

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#now #smithsonian #turntable

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#entered #grew #i #left #place

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. ↗

— Mira Nair

#dreamed #even #grew #i #i always

An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. ↗

— Gabriele Nanni

#extraordinary #god #intervention #miracle #tantamount

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#baghdad #country #effort #end #fight

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#good #great #how #mark #sportsmen

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#good #i #smoking #stopped #well