James Van Der Beek Quotes
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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I was a tomboy.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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My ultimate search has been for a muse.
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I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.
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If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
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Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.
