Ben Platt Quotes
I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.
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What's perfect for one mom might be the worst idea for another.
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Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
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I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'
