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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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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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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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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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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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
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Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
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A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
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Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
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My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
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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.
