Marjane Satrapi Quotes
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: 'The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.'
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I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
