Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Love, and do what you like.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Because he attempted to tell in his painting 'The Jewish Cemetery' painted by Ruisdael, that which is outside the reach of art... .there are ruins to indicate old age, a stream to signify the course of life, and rocks and precipices to shadow forth its dangers. But how are we to discover all this?
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Some of our folks went to Washington to drain the swamp and made partnership with the alligators instead.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
