Hamid Dabashi Quotes

#1. There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.

Hamid Dabashi

#2. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Anna White

#3. As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

#4. The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

Hamid Dabashi

#5. The tough times start," he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.

Michael Perry

#6. So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ...

Nikola Tesla

#7. I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Anais Nin

#8. The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Vladimir Lenin

#9. On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Howard Schultz

#10. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.

George Harrison

#11. I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

Willow Shields

#12. I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

Kyan Douglas

#13. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

W.G. Sebald

#14. This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

Hamid Dabashi

#15. I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Michael Phelps

#16. No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.

Robin S. Sharma