Dick Van Patten Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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In another's eyes I'm afraid that I can't seeThis picture perfect portrait that they paint of me.They don't realize and I pray they never do,'Cause every time I look I'm seein' youIn another's eyes.
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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.
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People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.
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I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.
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The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
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I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
