Dick Van Patten Quotes

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

Dick Van Patten

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• I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Small

• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Joy

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Home
  • Dream
  • You

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Market
  • Other

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Name
  • Changed
  • Ninja

• Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reading

• I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Different
  • Think
  • Journey

• All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Community
  • Diversity
  • India

• The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure is that neither can European states control and monitor the development of fundamentalist networks in their own territory.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Reality
  • Control

• It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

  

  John Sexton
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

  

  Dick Van Patten