Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
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Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
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I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
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I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
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Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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The current status quo works against the interests of all. The time has come to move forward all together, leaving behind restrictions and confrontation.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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The status quo is working.
