Patton Oswalt Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.
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I hate it when girls act stupid ’cause they think it’s cute. Intelligence is sexy.
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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.
