Paul Tsongas Quotes
In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
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I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage their suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behaviors, rather than on understanding the possible causes of their despair and helplessness. I was also struck by how little attention was paid to their accomplishments and aspirations; whom they cared for, loved, or hated; what motivated and engaged them, what kept them stuck, and what made them feel at peace—the ecology of their lives.
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In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
