Chris Patten Quotes
I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
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I'm always open to trying out new things.
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It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.
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I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
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I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
