Patty Duke Quotes
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.
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I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
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Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
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You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.
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I think it is probably not the best time in the world.
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I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
