Jonathan Groff Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.
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Life is for participating, not for spectating.
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I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
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I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
