Top 15 Farah Diba Quotes
#1. There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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#2. Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
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#3. It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.
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#4. In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.
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#5. Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.
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#6. Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.
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#7. Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.
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#8. I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.
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#9. I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.
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#10. I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
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#11. I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.
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#12. You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
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#13. Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
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#14. I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
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#15. There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
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