Dick Van Patten Quotes
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that.
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I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
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... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
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I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
