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"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
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"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."
"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."
"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."
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"We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time."
"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."
"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
"I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well."
"On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny."
"My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?"
"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."
"Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else."
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