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'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
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In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
Biz Stone -
I wasn't worried about unemployment.
