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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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
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I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.
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Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.
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In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
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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.
