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 computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

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