"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the……" — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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25 Quotes by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf has 25 quotes on this site.
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The style depends on the subject.
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Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a…
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It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But…
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I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice,…
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From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other…
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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read…
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Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown…
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But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
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Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next…
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Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies…
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From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the…
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I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers,…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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