Dick Van Patten Quotes
It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.
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I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?
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You can go up to the editor of 'Vogue,' and she might think I have horrible style, or maybe she thinks I have great style. Who knows? I don't really know too much about it: I just know what I like and what I don't like. I love clothes and making my own clothes and shoes, like I got to do with Adidas.
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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.
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It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
