Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Quotes
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
