Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana -
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
Oliver Reed
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken -
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie -
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
Victoria Wood -
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Oscar Levant -
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
Kate Klise -
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
Pamela Anderson -
The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
Warren Buffett -
Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
Dan Quinn
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Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.
Markus Persson -
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud -
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner -
You gotta floss!
Jonathan Van Ness