Ben Platt Quotes
If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I still keep my accent.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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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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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.
