Aaryn Gries Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
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Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
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I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
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No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.
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People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute.
