James Roday Quotes
They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
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There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.
