Mike Fitzpatrick Quotes
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
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Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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With all the things that have occurred in this country in the past couple of years, we want to assure people that this is an isolated, specific event, not of any random nature.
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Dying should not be a taxable event.
