Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.