Robert W. Patterson Quotes
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
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Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.
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Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.
