Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
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Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
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Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
