Patton Oswalt Quotes
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
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In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.
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The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
