Paul Tsongas Quotes
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I love cycling.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
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If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.
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The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'
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No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
