Jim Parsons Quotes
As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
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I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
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It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.
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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
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Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
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The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
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As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
