Arthur Japin Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I felt before I thought, as all humans do.
