Jim Parsons Quotes
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Midi is my hobby.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.
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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
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My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
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When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
