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 femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith are hall-of-famers. When they hit the red carpet, they know exactly what they're going to do, how they're going to do it. Damn, they're good.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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You went up a girl and came down a woman.
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I am shocked almost on a daily basis that my being me everywhere I go affects people so deeply.
