Johnny Weir Quotes
Out of ugly, I think the most important thing to do in life is to make something beautiful.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
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I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
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Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
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Out of ugly, I think the most important thing to do in life is to make something beautiful.
