Festivalbar 1984 Quotes

#1. Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#2. A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

Seneca The Younger

#3. How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

#4. We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Wei Jingsheng

#5. Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered.

Tom Reiss

#6. I have my work and my faith ... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Blaise Pascal

#8. The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

Kevin Connolly

#10. If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

Gretchen Rubin

#12. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.

Roberto Bolano

#13. I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Charlie Sheen

#14. I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Tina Fey