Ben Platt Quotes

I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Important
  • First
  • Gun

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Atheist

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Truth
  • Problem

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

  

  James Comey
  • Help

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Success
  • Positive

• I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Proud
  • Struggle
  • Anxiety