Eliot Pattison Quotes
It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
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I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.
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The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
