Mandy Patinkin Quotes
As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed.
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In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
