Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveRelationshipSocietyEatingYou

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

John McAfee

LifeMoneyMaking MoneyEasyMaking

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Anita Roddick

GoodHellDoingSomethingPublicAm

I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.

Andy Grammer

PracticePeopleMeWinGuitarFast

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

Steve Forbert

LifeWorkAgeMyselfResponsibility

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

Rita Coolidge

LifeMusicExperienceMeRoadHuman

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

Jonathan Levine

GoodMeLongYouGoSee

There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.

Jonathan Galassi

GreatExperiencePeopleBelieveHere

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Bruce Perens

MindEgoYouNeverAwesomeTelling

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.

Alistair Horne

TimeReflectionBossLonelySerious

I think if companies start reinventing themselves and focus on the customer experience more, they will win out in the end.

Alfred Lin

ExperienceFocusWinStartThink

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

ForgivenessUnhappyForgiveCannot

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

Shane Smith

FuturePeopleSomeoneYouLoseKnow

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