Patrick Dempsey Quotes
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
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'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'
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The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
