Najafi Quotes

#1. Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

Shahin Najafi

#2. In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors ... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

Will Ferrell

#3. Oh beloved, Take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything, That takes me away from you.

Zeeshan Najafi

#4. he wants people who make, say 30,000 dollars a year, to understand that they are not poor. In fact, they ARE the 1% they complain about. As of January of 2013 almost half the world lived on less than $2.5 a day, and 80% of the world lived on less than $10 a day.

Claudia Azula Altucher

#5. Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

Shahin Najafi

#7. The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.

Shahin Najafi

#8. Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

Shahin Najafi

#9. My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

Shahin Najafi

#10. I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

Shahin Najafi

#11. He put on a short-sleeved white T-shirt and tried not to flex when he checked his reflection in the mirror. Is this what women felt like when they put on miniskirts?

Rainbow Rowell

#12. If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined.

Karen Traviss

#13. I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

Shahin Najafi

#14. I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

Shahin Najafi

#15. I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

Shahin Najafi

#16. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

Julia Cameron

#17. I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Solomon Burke

#18. I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Joy Behar

#19. I ask you to make INSTITUTE a PRIORITY.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Shahin Najafi