Hooman Majd Quotes

#1. I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

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#2. Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.

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#3. Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.

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#4. I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

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#5. There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

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#6. I know that my cell phone in Iran ... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

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#7. The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

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#8. Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that ... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey.

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#9. I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

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#10. Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine ... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

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#11. The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision ...

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#12. If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.

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#13. As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

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#14. The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.

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#15. If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine "now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

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#16. This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

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#17. I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

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#18. Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

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#19. It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

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