Joss Whedon Quotes
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Love, and do what you like.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
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Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.
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The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
