Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
Ed Asner
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
Barry Pepper
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
R. Kelly
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
Barbara Delinsky
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
Gabe Newell
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
Hailey Bieber
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
Cameron van der Burgh
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
Halle Berry
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
Tavi Gevinson
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
Carlene Carter
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
Ed Royce
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.
Kangana Ranaut
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The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
Brion James
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
Taya Kyle
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
Joanna Southcott
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Elie Wiesel
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There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
Louis C. K.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
Marjane Satrapi
