Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Justice is revenge.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.
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I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.
