Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
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I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.
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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.
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Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.
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The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
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The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
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Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.
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Follow your heart and you won't get lost.
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Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
