Patton Oswalt Quotes
We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Fame is a very strange animal.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.
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When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
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We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.
