Patton Oswalt Quotes
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
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I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
