Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
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I think violence can never be justified.
