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.Dick Van Patten
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry -
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.
Barry Commoner -
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
Harland Williams -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini -
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.
Natasha Trethewey
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
Oleg Cassini -
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.
Ian Anderson -
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden -
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
Barry Humphries -
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.
Ziad Doueiri
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman -
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison -
Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
Jacob Artist -
Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
Ted Dexter -
I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Dan Feuerriegel -
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
Garth Risk Hallberg
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
Lance Henriksen -
I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
Jim DeMint -
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
Patricia Millett -
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
Jacques Barzun -
We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.
David Thewlis -
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.
Dick Van Patten