#yin

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

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#create #determining #entire #instrument #landscapes

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#doing #interested #just #opposed #saying

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#contained #judgment #trying #understand

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad. ↗

— Hidetoshi Nakata

#also #because #believe #big #cup

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different. ↗

— Joe Namath

#bit #could #different #get #i

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. ↗

— Joe Namath

#amongst #coaches #football #general #old

We've probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas? ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#calls #gas #going #gotta #gotten