Patton Oswalt Quotes
Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.
