Brian Patten Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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There is always pressure in football.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Seven scores, seven scores, seven hundreds of saints, And seven thousands and seven ten scores, November a number implored, Though martyrs good they came.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.
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Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
