Jonathan Van Ness Quotes

I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

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• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
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  • Best

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
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• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
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  • Theory

• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
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  • Time
  • Struggle

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
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• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
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• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
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• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

  

  Parker Posey
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• When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.

  

  Diego Luna

• It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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• We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

  

  Ma Jun
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• I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
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