"I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York."

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Source : "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.

Amy Ryan

#New York Quotes #Queens Quotes #Class Quotes

“The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.”
“People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.”
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
“If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
“Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.”
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.”

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