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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The job as a coach is difficult.
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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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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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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'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Life is love, heartache and strain,
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I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
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I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
