Dick Van Patten Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch.
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My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.
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I'd say there's more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there's something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.
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Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
