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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that too.
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?
Quotes By Azar Nafisi
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Religion was used as an ideology as a system of control. When they forced...
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Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler...
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I see people who talk about America and then undermine it by not paying...
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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its...
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Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent and knowledge inevitably...
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Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in...
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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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When I first left Iran at the age of 13 Iran had become such a shining star...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...
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How do you make any sense of history art or literature without knowing the...