John Green Quotes
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

Quotes to Explore
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.
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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.