Brian Patten Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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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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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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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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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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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.
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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.
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The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
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Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
