Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I've never been a partier.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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I was not even looking, but my Caddy pinged me with twenty-nine points of convergence
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I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.
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For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
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As the family goes, so go the children.
