Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Quotes to Explore
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
