Jonathan Groff Quotes
The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, 'Ladies and gentlemen, here's the new one from Frankie Ballard. He's the guy with that hot new sound.' That's the dream.
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.
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The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
