Adrian Grenier Quotes
I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
