Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.Abbas Kiarostami
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra -
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
Aaron Paul -
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
Victoria Abril -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Garson Kanin -
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
Campbell Scott -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie -
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Fat Joe -
I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
Zack Wheat
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Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
Lewis Carroll -
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
Bill T. Jones -
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. Wilson -
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.
Elin Hilderbrand -
The truth is, the plans God has for you are always bigger than you are, and they are never going to be something you can pull off easily and in your own strength.
Brian Houston -
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami