Patrick Ness Quotes
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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Precognition or self-deception?
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
