Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
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At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
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I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
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Very few of us have our special listening room where we close off the rest of the world and only hear the music. As musicians or as listeners, we're generally interacting with music wherever we are, whether we're on a train or on the street.
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ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
