Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Home is where one starts from.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
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I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
