Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: June 22, 1940 - July 4, 2016

Topics

FindingDifferencesFindImportant

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Robert Scheer

FirePoliticsSilencePeopleMeEnd

I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not.

John Stamos

GoodPeopleSingLikeWhether

The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.

Anand Mahindra

AgePotentialIndustryBeingUber

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.

Mike Yaconelli

LifeFailureGodPathMistakesLook

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Minnie Pearl

RoadsBackTakeInsteadHighways

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.

Michael Mann

WordsTrainingStoryPhotographyGo

People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.'

Lucy Dacus

PeopleMeDreamLivingMoreTell

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Do Won Chang

CleaningFirstOutUnitedGasMany

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.

Christy Turlington

DayFashionFriendsModelingNever

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

PowerPeopleSmallWorryYouGroup

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

Anthony Weiner

JobTravelFightThinkValuesTry

When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school. So I gave them that care in the early life that somehow feminists have been led to believe is demeaning and is not worth the time of an educated woman.

Phyllis Schlafly

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