Vartan Gregorian Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
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I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.