Dick Van Patten Quotes
I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
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Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
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I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
