Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.
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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
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If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.
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Let us have peace.
