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 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.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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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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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
