Haim Ginott Quotes
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
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We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
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People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.
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Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.
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I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.
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And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
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My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
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If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
