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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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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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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John McCain once opposed these tax cuts - he rightly called them unfair and fiscally irresponsible. But now he has done an about face and wants to make them permanent, just like he wants a permanent occupation in Iraq. No matter what the costs, no matter what the consequences, John McCain seems determined to carry out a third Bush term...
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So spread the word cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out.
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We think of the Techstars product as not really the accelerator but the network. That's what entrepreneurs should be valuing here. I think it's the most undervalued thing that many entrepreneurs don't get.
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No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
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When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.
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If there were a billion people living on the planet, we could do whatever we please. But there are nearly seven billion. At this scale, life as we know it today is not sustainable.
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I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.
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I wasn't worried about unemployment.
