John Patrick Quotes
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
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My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
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Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
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I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.
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Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.
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A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
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I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.
