Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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The fairy tale about the people who freely detach and re-attach appendages still inspires Sam. He remembers the character who interchanged his earlobes and testicles so he could acutely hear his ejaculations and enjoy a tightening at the side of his head whenever the weather got cold.
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That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.
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I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
