Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes
It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.
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Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
