Shahin Najafi Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Shahin Najafi

#4. Wednesday stood up. "May your choices always be so clear," he said, and once again, he sounded totally sincere.

Neil Gaiman

#5. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Ignatius Of Loyola

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

Shahin Najafi

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Shahin Najafi

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.

Joanne Froggatt

#13. 'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.

Frank Rich

#14. The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

Ita Buttrose

#15. I can assume I know what 'asshole' means

Kristen Ashley

#16. It's hard to believe everything won't be this way forever - the two of us on our bikes going

Jenny Han

#17. Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Keep an open heart
To allow the world
Lovingly and faithfully
To come in.

Sri Chinmoy

#19. But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

Mike McCready

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

Shahin Najafi

#21. You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Dan Pallotta