Marjane Satrapi Quotes

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: November 22, 1969

Topics

WarPeopleStupidIntelligentReal

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

Jill Scott

MeGoLivingWhyGrandmotherNever

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly.

Melissa McCarthy

GreatThinkComedyLongYouLiving

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John le Carre

CommunityIntelligenceThinkLonely

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Steve Buyer

FutureTechnologyTodayThoughtData

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

Rob Lowe

MeThinkYouLittleBeatMentality

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Joy Behar

PeopleTalkingTalkLikeInterested

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Jordan Peterson

I AmDataAcceptLittleLikePiece

I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.

Johnny Mathis

MeWorldKitchenGoNothingNeed

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Dick Wolf

MyselfSeeHardly

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

DeRay Mckesson

ChangeTogetherPeopleStartSpark

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Clarence Thomas

LifeFightPeopleChoicesYouCheap

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Brigitte Bardot

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