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

• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• 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

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Good
  • Career
  • Nice

• 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

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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

• The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • English
  • Independence
  • White

• 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

• When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

  

  Chris Pine

• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Air
  • Fire

• I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Science
  • Community
  • Always

• 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