Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

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

Neil Patrick Harris

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• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• 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

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Death
  • Freedom

• I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Cancer

• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Poverty

• Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Children
  • Write

• As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • Funny
  • Band

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

  

  Neil Patrick Harris