Harold Ramis Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.