Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

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• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
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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.

  

  G-Eazy
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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.

  

  Barry Bonds
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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.'

  

  Mae Whitman
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• I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

  

  Tao Lin
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• Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

  

  Laura Marling
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• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd put the models in 'Vogue' to shame. I knew that Harlemites loved to dance, to pray, and to eat.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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