Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.
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I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
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We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'
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I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor.
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I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.
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You just take things as they come.
