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Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments.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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Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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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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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
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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.
