Lauren Graham Quotes
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.
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Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.
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If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.
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The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
