Mandy Patinkin Quotes
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
