Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
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When we realize that we can see life we gradually give up the things that stand in the way of our complete awareness. As we paint we move along step by step. We realize that we are guided in our work by awareness of life.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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Give me dome dome da-da-da-da-da dome dome dome I aint trippin on ya money money long long long
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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
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Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
