Mike Patton Quotes
I got one entire song from fortune cookies. On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
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And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind...
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As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.
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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
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Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.
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The thing I love about being on stage is I can do whatever I want.
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Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
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I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.
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All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.
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Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.
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Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.
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I got one entire song from fortune cookies. On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.
