Dick Van Patten Quotes
The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I have many, many gay friends.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.
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Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
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I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
