Patrick Duffy Quotes
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.
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The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
