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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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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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
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Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."
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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.
