Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Lack is more in means, than in principles.
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And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?
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Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.
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Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
