Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
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I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.
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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.
