Anthony Rapp Quotes

I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.

Anthony Rapp

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Sometimes
  • Three
  • Cookie

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
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• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • City
  • London

• When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Challenges

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Earth
  • Road
  • Sun

• If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Struggle

• I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True