Logan Mankins Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.
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Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
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I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
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You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.
