Jim Parsons Quotes
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Everything I say is true.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
