As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and politi... WILLIAM HAGUE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdista... PAT BUCHANAN In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, esp... AZAR NAFISI I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's strug... AZAR NAFISI They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... 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NAZANIN BONIADI Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def... KARL ROVE It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fig... ROBERT GOULET It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, an... MIKE POMPEO Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation,... MIKE POMPEO Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's... RICHARD ENGEL Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic fi... STEPHEN KINZER If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building ... 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An American says: I can't understand... TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet... TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th... TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done. TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ... TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe... TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ... TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo... TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w... TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM