John Rampton Quotes
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
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Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
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It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.
