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 knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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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 -
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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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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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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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'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'
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When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!
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You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.
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I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'
