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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I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
