Jim Parsons Quotes
I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I was a tomboy.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
