Mandy Patinkin Quotes
I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I grew up with three younger brothers, so it was always 'compete against your brothers.' I've always had to stand up for myself. I love that. I love proving myself, that women can be just as good as men.
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
