Brian Patten Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'
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It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.
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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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You have to show you have ambition as a team, as a group of players; show you want to win. Otherwise, in my opinion, you can't win a tournament.
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
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While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
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So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.
