J. K. Simmons Quotes
Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
