Bruce Vilanch Quotes
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?
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You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it’s a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!
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on reacting to racism I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. 'I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!'
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
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It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
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I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
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Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
