#ture

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american literature #degree #english #finally #got

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 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

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#give #given #i #lecture #lectures

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

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#belief #creatures #deserve #equal #equal opportunity

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. ↗

— Irving Thalberg

#civil war #ever #forget #louis #made

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cause #children #daily #daily life #life

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

#culture #dictated #dominant #i #perspective

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#beauty #hostile #nature #unpredictable #wonder