Dick Van Patten Quotes

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

Dick Van Patten

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Him

• We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Accept
  • Germany
  • Apply

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Different
  • Explore

• The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Today
  • Control
  • Process

• Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Political
  • Racism
  • Hypocrisy

• You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Impossible

• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  

  O. Henry
  • Way
  • Air
  • Vote

• If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Working
  • Facebook

• Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Happens
  • Tell
  • Coaches

• Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression 'being points beyond itself' may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • May
  • Power
  • Space

• Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I've got followers there who I've been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele. I'd love to go to that World Cup - I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.

  

  Shakira
  • World
  • Country

• I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Hope
  • Balance

• Instead of saying, 'This guy is supposed to rotate here and this guy is supposed to rotate there,' if you see it, just pull the trigger and cover for that guy, and somebody has to cover for you. That's all out of reaction and you don't have to think about it.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Guy
  • Supposed
  • Rotate

• But the burns were like the fingerprints of an older time—before Ziegler and his brethren decided that traditional sources of value were merely superstition. “Those thousands of generations of technical progress” obliterated ritual, emptied out all meaning, glossolalia without divinity. I decided that’s what the painted mother foresaw, that she was saying farewell to candlelight, that she knew she was trapped inside a painting addressed to the future, where it could only be, however great, an instance of technique.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Future
  • Value
  • Painting

• People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.

  

  Nicholas Nixon
  • Best
  • Pictures
  • Date

• I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

  

  Dick Van Patten