Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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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.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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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.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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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.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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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.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can never wink at the audience.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
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Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.
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Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.
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It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
