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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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
