Patton Oswalt Quotes
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.Patton Oswalt
Quotes to Explore
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne -
I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
Zoe Kravitz -
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
Felix Dennis -
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
T-Pain -
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Idina Menzel -
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver -
When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
Bart Stupak -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells -
To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
Hamza Yusuf -
I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
Edie Campbell -
I hate wasting people's time.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
Banks -
And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
Warren Farrell -
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.
Bat for Lashes -
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier -
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
Harold H. Greene
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Nancy Mitford -
This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
Anthony Joshua -
Teachers are important in this world.
Martin Landau -
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
John Henrik Clarke -
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
James Wolpert -
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Patton Oswalt