Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

Marjane Satrapi

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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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Why
  • Morning

• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Life
  • Revolution
  • Continue

• I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Happy
  • Brother
  • Dating

• Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Government

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • World
  • Beautiful

• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Roles

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

  

  Jane Goodall

• I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

  

  Danny Meyer

• Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Right
  • Jobs
  • Create

• The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Past
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Law

• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  

  John Wooden
  • Failure

• I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Words

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Rebel