Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I like doing my own stunts.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'
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Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
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Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
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I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.
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I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
