Penn Badgley Quotes

#1. When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.

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#2. I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

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#3. I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

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#4. I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

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#5. Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.

Matthew J. Hefti

#6. I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

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#7. I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.

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#8. I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

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#9. Money is ... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

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#10. As an actor, being in a relationship you have this opportunity to have something really exceptional, because you don't have a regimented schedule or lifestyle.

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#11. I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.

John Cornyn

#12. I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

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#13. It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.

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#14. I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal.

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#15. The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

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#16. I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.

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#17. What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

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#18. You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

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#19. I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.

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#20. I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?

Patricia Highsmith

#21. We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.

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#22. Look, let's not turn this into a blamestorming session. There'll be plenty of time for that if we fail.

Daniel Suarez

#23. Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

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#24. Treasure your exceptions.

William Bateson

#25. I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

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#26. The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.

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#27. Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#29. My soul had found
All happiness in its own cause or ground.
Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
And must the common round of day resume.

William Butler Yeats

#30. And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

Warren Farrell

#31. For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

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#32. In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.

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#33. I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

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