Patton Oswalt Quotes
I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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My health is fine.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
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As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
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You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.
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Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.
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Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.
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I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.
