Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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All policies should be packaged with full awareness of the limitation of human nature (amorality, emotionality and egoism) in both the short- and the long-term.
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
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Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
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What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
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I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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Image is an international language.
