Dick Van Patten Quotes
I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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To its neocon architects, Iraq was always about empire, hegemony, Pax Americana, global democracy – about getting hold of America’s power to make the Middle East safe for Sharon and themselves glorious and famous.
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The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
