Jason Ralph Quotes
I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.
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I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.
