James Van Der Beek Quotes
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
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The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.
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In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
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I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
