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 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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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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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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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
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I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
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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.
