Gavin DeGraw Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
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For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
