Nicholas Offerman (Nick Offerman) Quotes
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.
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Love's whole world on us doth wheel.
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I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.
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It's always nice to have somebody on your side.
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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't see in Daddy's era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
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You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.
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Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
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In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.
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I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
