Brian Patten Quotes
How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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I don't like to attach myself to material things.
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How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?
