Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Jack Nicklaus -
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.
Danger Mouse -
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.
Ian Lustick -
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.
Umberto Eco
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
Barney Frank -
I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
Fiona Apple -
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal -
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
Macy Gray -
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.
Walt Disney -
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.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
Edward Heath -
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
Ludwig von Mises -
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
Lynn Margulis -
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.
Matt Taibbi -
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.
James Gleick -
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.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.
Jim Rash -
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
Drummond Money-Coutts -
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller -
I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.
Anthony Hamilton -
Image is an international language.
Marjane Satrapi