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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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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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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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.
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I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.
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To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
