Jonathan Van Ness Quotes

I think I've been in a lot of really uncomfortable situations, and I think when you're in uncomfortable situations, it kind of polishes you up a little. It shines you up.

Jonathan Van Ness

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ThinkUncomfortableYouKindUp

The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.

John John Florence

BestWorldWavesCrownYouPlace

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

Andy Kaufman

BusinessPeopleSingingSongLaugh

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Michael Gartner

PassionTodayDecisionPersonality

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

EducationGreatDisciplineMindEnd

When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.

Matt Apuzzo

WaterBlackLegalYouLookNobody

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

Michaela Coel

MemoriesRevolveTVManyAround

I want to continue to grow in every way possible, as an actor, a woman, just as a human being in general. I think growth is just an all-around great idea.

Miranda Rae Mayo

GrowthGreatWomanThinkGrowWant

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

Little Milton

LoveMeBlackWeekendWeekPlay

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

Christian de Duve

EducationTimeWarParentsCityUp

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

Antony Beevor

KnowledgeHistoryPeopleNowMore

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Annie Parisse

I AmWayPhotographerPaintArtsAm

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

HistoryBe KindMeKindWillWrite

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