Patrice O'Neal Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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I love creative people.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
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I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
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Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other
