Miranda Raison Quotes

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

Miranda Raison

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• The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Change
  • Health

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • People
  • Reality
  • Present

• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Help
  • High
  • Strong

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Religion

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Wife
  • Cool
  • Air

• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • Care

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fierce

• Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Why
  • Profit
  • E-Commerce

• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Law
  • Security
  • Immigration

• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Religious

• I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Country
  • English
  • Wedding

• He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Community
  • Interest
  • Information

• So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Serious

• Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Community
  • Point
  • Themselves