Dick Van Patten Quotes

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

Dick Van Patten

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• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Break
  • Forgotten
  • Changing

• I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • College
  • Myself
  • Hair

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Important
  • Community

• I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Change
  • Always
  • Human

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Day
  • Summer

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

  

  Babyface
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Today
  • Lessons
  • Regrets

• I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Relaxed

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Change
  • How
  • Within

• I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.

  

  T-Pain
  • Love
  • Car
  • Vintage

• Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men

• As you talk, so is your heart.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Heart

• Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart

• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dream

• The Raynbowe bending in the skye,Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,Is lyke the seate of God on hye,And seemes to tell these newes:That as thereby he promised,To drowne the worlde no more,So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,He will oure health restore.

  

  George Gascoigne
  • Bending
  • Drowned
  • Raynbowe

• Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • You
  • Athlete
  • Chances

• Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

  

  Dick Van Patten