Dick Van Patten Quotes
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.
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It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
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It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.
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I call Pluto the harbinger.
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In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
