Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

Neil Patrick Harris

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Dying
  • Having Fun

• My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Life
  • Science
  • My Life

• Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Government
  • Accountability

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Great
  • More
  • Mission

• I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Red
  • Lights

• We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Get
  • Painful
  • Through

• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Want
  • You
  • Movies

• New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Character
  • Story
  • New York

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Company
  • Values
  • Only

• Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Important
  • Success

• When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• It's no more of that 12 bar ditty wavy hair in the breeze platform boots flap your flare nonsense. It's not a packaged image of third-rate idiots. It's not a pose. We just do our stuff. Hate it as it usually is, you know I was very shocked by the reviews of the last album. I believe none of them. They liked us for the wrong reasons, trendy reasons.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Believe
  • Hate
  • Hair

• The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Universe
  • Glory

• Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Home
  • Job
  • Red

• In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris