Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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But I think we need the international market.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.
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I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
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My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Meanwhile back at mama's.The porch light's on, come in if you wanna.Supper's on the stove and beer's in the fridge.Red sun sinkin' out low on the ridge.Games on the tube and daddy smokes cigarettes.Whiskey keeps his whistle wet.Funny the things you thought you'd never miss.In a world gone crazy as this.
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The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
