Mandy Patinkin Quotes
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
