Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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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.
Walt Disney
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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.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
Edward Heath
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There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
Ludwig von Mises
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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?
Lynn Margulis
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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.
Matt Taibbi
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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.
James Gleick
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The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
Norman O. Brown
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver
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We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.
Brendon Burchard
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Image is an international language.
Marjane Satrapi
