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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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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.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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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.
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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.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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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.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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You gotta floss!
