Nazanin Boniadi Quotes

It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'

Nazanin Boniadi

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In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Jesmyn Ward

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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

John Boyega

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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

Michael Heisley

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I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

Merritt Wever

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From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing.

Trevante Rhodes

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This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

Tom Colicchio

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The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

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No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

Rohit Sharma

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We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Dexter Fletcher

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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

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