Justin Vivian Bond famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
-- Justin Vivian Bond

#World #Littles #Rooms
If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for. Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!
-- Justin Vivian Bond

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And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.
-- Justin Vivian Bond

#Nice #Love You #People
The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.
-- Justin Vivian Bond

#Self #Indulgence #My Own

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Justin Vivian Bond famous quotes

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