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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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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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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I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.
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Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
