Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I am shocked almost on a daily basis that my being me everywhere I go affects people so deeply.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.
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A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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I am shocked almost on a daily basis that my being me everywhere I go affects people so deeply.
