James Gray Quotes
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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I choose to express myself.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
