Pat Boone (Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone) Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
