Dick Van Patten Quotes
I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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My interest is in making sure we‘ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought out oil strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage. I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.
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The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.
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Working on fashion shows, you work with the designer and try to read his brain - what was in the creative process, what images did he have in his head?
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Go with your gut. Sometimes things defy explanation - and who knows where it will lead?
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Your struggles can be your fuel. So long as they don’t consume you, they can be the energy that propels you.
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I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
