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 think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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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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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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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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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
