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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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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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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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
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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.
