Marjane Satrapi Quotes
It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
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Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
