Marjane Satrapi Quotes

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Marjane Satrapi

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• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

  

  Pat Morita
  • High
  • Career
  • Very

• We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Pleasure
  • Loved

• Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nobody

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Find
  • Stage

• I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Learning
  • Worry
  • Picture

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• I can never wink at the audience.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Never
  • Audience
  • I Can

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • History
  • Together

• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Free

• And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.And neither one particularly appeals to me.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Life
  • Death

• “I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.”

  

  Amy Hill Hearth
  • World
  • Real
  • Two

• We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Universe

• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  

  Frederick Tennyson
  • Live
  • Forever

• 'There is a steep and lofty wall,Where my warders trembling stand,He who at speed shall ride round its height,For him shall be my hand.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Hand
  • Wall

• It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

  

  Marjane Satrapi