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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
Marilyn Nelson
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We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.
Bernard Ebbers
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The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.
Matthew Heineman
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I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
Chris Kattan
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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
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In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.
Jay IDK
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.
Jesmyn Ward
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What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.
Asra Nomani
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height
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Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
Miranda Raison
