#mic

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american literature #degree #english #finally #got

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#films #i #i love #laboratory #like

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#conversations #economic #forward #go #go away

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#biochemical #could #found #i #liked

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#forms #i #i think #life #life forms

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#certain #economic #economic problems #life #only

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#atmosphere #been #chemicals #condition #environmental