Ari Graynor Quotes
It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
