Professions
So they say
“When a million people showed up on Revolution Avenue in downtown Tehran to protest the results of the June 12 presidential election, most of them wore sneakers, in case they had to run for their lives.”
Nahid Siamdoust, Time, June 29-July 6, 2009
“Artists exist at the very top of a society. When an artist
becomes President, it is a step down. But there’s no way out.
For the happiness of the people, it is necessary.”
Iranian reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, Time, June 29-July 6, 2009
“Jeh has his strengths and Ness has his strengths. I am not going to get into it because I don’t want to go home this evening and be told, well, you didn’t say this about me! The short point is they are dissimilar and both of them have great strengths and great attributes. And both of them like different things and the greatest blessing I have, really and truly, is that my two sons are actually very, very close to each other... In fact, they gang up on me all the time.”
Nusli Wadia, chairman, Bombay Dyeing,
The Economic Times, July 13, 2009
“When the government finally discloses the contents of the Justice Liberhan Commission report... I am fairly certain that nothing substantial will actually emerge out of the whole long-winded exercise, spanning over 17 years. Invariably our commissions of inquiry begin with a bang and end in a whimper.”
Coomi Kapoor, resident editor, Delhi,
The Indian Express, July 10, 2009
“I think the good change is that the ministers now in charge
of infrastructure ministries are much better. I think the previous
lot did not perform. It’s the same with education: unless you have
a good minister, how is it going to get ahead? Social
infrastructure is as important as physical infrastructure.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group, The Economic Times, July 2, 2009
“We did not get fast growth simply by cutting taxes. If it was that easy, every country would have fast growth. We do need efficiency and productivity.”
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar, consulting editor,
ET NOW, The Economic Times, July 2, 2009
“I am a friend to Right, I am not a friend to Wrong. It is not my desire that the weak man should have wrong done to him by the mighty; nor is it my desire, that the mighty man should have wrong done to him by the weak!”
Achaemenid monarch Darius’ inscription
on the facade of his rock-cut tomb at Naqsh-i Rustam,
quoted by Farrokh Vajifdar in Hamazor, Issue 2, 2009
Nahid Siamdoust, Time, June 29-July 6, 2009
“Artists exist at the very top of a society. When an artist
becomes President, it is a step down. But there’s no way out.
For the happiness of the people, it is necessary.”
Iranian reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, Time, June 29-July 6, 2009
“Jeh has his strengths and Ness has his strengths. I am not going to get into it because I don’t want to go home this evening and be told, well, you didn’t say this about me! The short point is they are dissimilar and both of them have great strengths and great attributes. And both of them like different things and the greatest blessing I have, really and truly, is that my two sons are actually very, very close to each other... In fact, they gang up on me all the time.”
Nusli Wadia, chairman, Bombay Dyeing,
The Economic Times, July 13, 2009
“When the government finally discloses the contents of the Justice Liberhan Commission report... I am fairly certain that nothing substantial will actually emerge out of the whole long-winded exercise, spanning over 17 years. Invariably our commissions of inquiry begin with a bang and end in a whimper.”
Coomi Kapoor, resident editor, Delhi,
The Indian Express, July 10, 2009
“I think the good change is that the ministers now in charge
of infrastructure ministries are much better. I think the previous
lot did not perform. It’s the same with education: unless you have
a good minister, how is it going to get ahead? Social
infrastructure is as important as physical infrastructure.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group, The Economic Times, July 2, 2009
“We did not get fast growth simply by cutting taxes. If it was that easy, every country would have fast growth. We do need efficiency and productivity.”
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar, consulting editor,
ET NOW, The Economic Times, July 2, 2009
“I am a friend to Right, I am not a friend to Wrong. It is not my desire that the weak man should have wrong done to him by the mighty; nor is it my desire, that the mighty man should have wrong done to him by the weak!”
Achaemenid monarch Darius’ inscription
on the facade of his rock-cut tomb at Naqsh-i Rustam,
quoted by Farrokh Vajifdar in Hamazor, Issue 2, 2009
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