Hal Sparks Quotes

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

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  Tags in Try, Ignorant

• Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

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  Tags in Still, Kids, Anyone

• People think that the arts are optional and they aren’t. They teach a level of emotional depth that’s equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there’s no calculator for human interaction.

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  Tags in Emotional, Important, Human, Interaction

• It’s better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Time, Better

• If ‘Airplane!’ comes on, it’s like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

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  Tags in Laugh, Film, Movie

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Time, Believe

• There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It’s just me doing my thing.

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  Tags in Hesitation

• Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

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  Tags in Play, Guitar, Sometimes, Like

• ‘Cold Case Files’ and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Idea, Stand, Interest

• All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I’m just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Live, Parents, Musicians

• As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope… These things don’t fit on a comedy stage and if you act you’ll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

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  Tags in Music, Hope, Feelings

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Try, Guitar, Rhythm

• I’m a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Problem, Sense

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid – 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

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  Tags in Gay, Friends, Percent

• I’m a writer, so I like dissecting things.

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  Tags in Writer

• I’m as heterosexual as any person need be. I’m open about my relationships – or lack thereof – in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn’t contagious. It’s not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Gay, Person

• I’m named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

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  Topics in Computer

  Tags in After, Interested

• I’ve been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

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  Tags in Old, Since, Stand

• I’ve always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Said, Actor, Security

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I’ve done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Job, Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Important

Hal Sparks (38)

Birth:	25th September, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Hal Sparks is an American actor, comedian, musician and television personality. He is known for his contributions to VH1, hosting E!'s Talk Soup, and the role of Michael Novotny on the American television series Queer as Folk and as Donald Davenport in Lab Rats.

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