Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.
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I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color.
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Being queen is overrated.
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
