Merritt Patterson Quotes
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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I want to have a long career.
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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
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There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
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I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.
