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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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
