Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'

I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

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I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.