Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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I love working in New York.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.
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Maybe the Lord's word is decisive on that: The poor are always with us. You know, you'll never run out of people, you can help.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
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I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.
