Dick Van Patten Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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I'm becoming more adventurous.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy.
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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.
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I wasn't worried about unemployment.
