Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.
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When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
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Our national identity is so interwoven with football.
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I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
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I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.
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I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
