John Barrowman Quotes

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

John Barrowman

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• One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Happiness
  • Self
  • Open

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Home
  • American
  • Freedom

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Trying
  • Advice
  • New

• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Baby

• I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Book
  • Fun

• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Done
  • Education

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  

  Ice T
  • Family
  • Father
  • Brother

• I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Believe
  • You
  • Three

• Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Working
  • Sense
  • Writers

• I have four horses, and they are my everything.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Everything
  • Four
  • Horses

• Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Quality

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Money
  • Faith

• So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Live
  • Done
  • Culture

• When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

  

  John Barrowman