John Henry Patterson Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
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You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
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Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
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Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.
Charles B. Rangel -
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
