Shahin 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. I wish you'd stay forever, I think. I wish that I would not wish so often.

Carrie Anne Noble

#3. 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

#4. Then the sunlight burst into the room through the venetian blinds; I breathed hard, filling my lungs with air. I could see my feet, my arms; there I was. I tried hard to get back in my body again ... it was such a long way to my feet.

Sylvia Plath

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

Shahin Najafi

#6. God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Dan Brown

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

Shahin Najafi

#8. Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.

Nina Kuscsik

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

Shahin Najafi

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. [If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.

David McRaney

#16. Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

Steven A. Cohen

#17. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

Gustav Klimt

#18. I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

Peter Thiel

#19. The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

Zero Mostel

#20. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Judy Johnson