Dick Van Patten Quotes

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Dick Van Patten

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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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Run
  • Fast
  • Slow

• 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.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• I fell in love with doing yoga.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Yoga

• 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.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Experiences

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Science
  • Wonder

• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Order
  • Everyone
  • Capitalism

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  

  E. B. White
  • Space
  • See
  • View

• 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.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Most

• 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.'

  

  Flula Borg
  • World
  • Real
  • Explore

• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • You
  • Honey

• 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?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Father
  • Body
  • Force

• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Stage

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Eyes

• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Work
  • Men
  • Career

• I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'

  

  Jane Lynch
  • People
  • Friends
  • Friend

• I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Home
  • Successful
  • Insane

• I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

  

  Dick Van Patten