Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I hate people who say New Balance shoes are only for white people. That's not real.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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Two enemies - the same man divided.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
