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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

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Marjane Satrapi

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

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In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance. . . Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

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If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

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Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

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My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

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

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I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere. . . Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

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The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors. " "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen. " "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

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