Dick Van Patten Quotes
I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
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When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.
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I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
