Patrick Ness Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away.
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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
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Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
