Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
