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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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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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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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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Wave after waveWill flow with the tideAnd bury the world as it doesTide after tideWill flow and recedeLeaving life to go onAs it was... - Natural Science (1980)
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Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
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What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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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.
