Hooman Quotes

#1. Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.

Mark Dunn

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

Hooman Majd

#3. 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.

Hooman Majd

#4. I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

Amy Sedaris

#5. 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 ...

Hooman Majd

#6. 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.

Hooman Majd

#7. 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.

Hooman Majd

#8. No one escapes this life without scars ... not even God.

Michelle Griep

#9. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

Jimmy Johnson

#10. That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. 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?"

Hooman Majd

#12. To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Charles De Montesquieu

#13. 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.

Hooman Majd

#14. 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.

Hooman Majd

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

Hooman Majd

#16. I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.

Lorin Stein

#17. I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

Larry Winget

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

Hooman Majd

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

Hooman Majd

#20. The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.

Emily Dickinson

#21. 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.

Hooman Majd

#22. I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Donna Dixon

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

Hooman Majd

#24. Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Alan Cohen

#25. 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.

Hooman Majd

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

Hooman Majd

#27. 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.

Hooman Majd

#28. 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.

Hooman Majd

#29. 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.

Hooman Majd

#30. The term "teenager" had not long been invented, and it never occured to him that the separateness he felt, which was both painful and delicious, could be shared by anyone else.

Ian McEwan

#31. 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.

Hooman Majd

#32. We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

Jessye Norman

#33. For the record, I do not smoke cigarettes. They use them in fashion shots to make us look cool I guess.

Carolyn Murphy

#34. The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.

Heinz Fischer