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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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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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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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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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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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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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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The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I don't even call myself a Christian.
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When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,' it was a great opportunity to be a part of a really funny cutting-edge show on television. I really got into the character, and I was able to do some improvisation, which allowed me to mix in part of my personality into the script.
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Image is an international language.
