Ari Graynor Quotes
I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
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Seeing someone dressed up as your character is incredible.
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What is the government doing or not doing in terms of tracking you, following you, investigating you? And if you're suspicionless, it should be none of the above.
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I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.
