Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
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I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.
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We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
