Pat Quinn Quotes
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
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Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.
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I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.
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It was talked about, it was planned and now was the time to go.
