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.
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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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I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.
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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.
