Patrick McHenry Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.
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The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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I don't want people to look at me.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
