Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
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With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
