Logan Mankins Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
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I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty much all in my hands, which is crazy to be touring and doing that at the same time.
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There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
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When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
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If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?
