Mandy Patinkin Quotes
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.
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Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
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Education is an admirable thing.
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I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
