Jim Parsons Quotes
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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Know your career values: Not your parents' values, not your friends', but what you personally value in work. For me, it's things like moving quickly and scrappily, ownership and authority over my work, and flexibility.
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The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
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I'm an urban act.
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I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
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It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
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To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
