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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#acting #definitely #i #like #lots

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#consider #i #interesting #interesting person #mentality

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#brother #brother and sister #child #doing #freedom

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#became #because #dad #died #doing

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#absolutely free #describe #free #me #something

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#biggest thing #calmness #come #gotten #i

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing