Jonathan Groff Quotes

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Jonathan Groff

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Today
  • Global

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • Men
  • Short

• America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • America
  • Light

• My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• Learning is always great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Always

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • House
  • Credit
  • Key

• I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Books
  • Finish

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Cat

• One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart
  • Free

• Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Up
  • Why
  • Eyes

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Faith

• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  

  John Carmack
  • Work
  • Today

• Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Kill

• I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Lost

• One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Again

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

  

  Jonathan Groff