Jason Ritter Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
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Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.
