Ben Platt Quotes
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I'm very interested in science.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
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Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.
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It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.
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The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
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I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.
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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
