Marjane Satrapi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
-
You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
-
The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
-
Actor's life is very long.
-
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
-
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
-
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
-
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
-
I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
-
I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
-
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
-
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
-
Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
-
My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
-
Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
-
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
-
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
-
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
-
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!
-
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.
-
I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
-
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
-
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
