Patton Oswalt Quotes
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
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In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I'm not familiar with the metric system.
