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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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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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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The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.
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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.
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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.
