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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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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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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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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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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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.
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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.
