Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Look
  • Sexy
  • Elephant

• As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Famous

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Push

• I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Beautiful
  • Died
  • Her

• Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Political
  • Persons
  • Humans

• I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
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