Patton Oswalt Quotes
I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.Patton Oswalt
Quotes to Explore
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Lars von Trier -
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson -
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Yuan T. Lee -
Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
Carli Lloyd
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
Falk Hentschel -
I work very hard at my game.
Oscar Taveras -
Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
Cara Delevingne -
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
Malcolm X -
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
Hanna Rosin
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert -
I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
Karen McDougal -
I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
Tavi Gevinson -
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
Bertrand Russell -
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
Brenda Lee
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It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.
Johnny Mathis -
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
Kat Edmonson -
I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
Washed Out -
Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth.
Ian McHarg -
I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out.
Sandy Duncan -
I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
Patton Oswalt