Marjane Satrapi Quotes
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
