#me

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

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#day #grandfather #heard #home #one day

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

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 have the mentality of a supporting actor. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#i #mentality #supporting #supporting actor

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#how #i #learned #point #rifle

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#hero #i #mean #play #something

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

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

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal