John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
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That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
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I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.
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When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.
