John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
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The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.
