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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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
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I'm about this shmoney.
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When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.
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I wasn't worried about unemployment.
