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 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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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 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 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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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 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 try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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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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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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 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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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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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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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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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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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'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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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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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.