Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.
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I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.
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Producing never stops. It's 24/7.
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Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
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Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.
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I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.
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The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.
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I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine / I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times/ I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind
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My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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I'm a big 'Cosby Show' fan.
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My podcast 'Getting Curious' keeps me really busy, which I love.
