Mandy Patinkin Quotes
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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Keyword research is a task often left to SEOs and content marketers. However, it can be a powerful tool for anyone in your organization who wants to learn what your target market wants to read, learn and buy.
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If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.
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I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.
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I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
