Dick Van Patten Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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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.
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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.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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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.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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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.
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It was accountability that Nixon feared.
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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
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My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
