Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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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.
Fiona Apple
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
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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
Macy Gray
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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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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 am the young, edgy New Yorker.
Douglas Wilson
