Lauren Graham Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
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My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
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Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.
