Jonathan Groff Quotes
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to amazing change in this country.
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...like a ship, clean and trim on a dirty sea of pox and camel-dung.
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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It is a political axiom that power follows property.
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There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.
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I am greatly honoured to become Patron of The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. I have benefited hugely from their work, and I am looking forward to supporting them in giving a chance to others to benefit from their experience and teaching.
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I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Storytelling is about listening in any media.
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I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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I love going to the movies.
