Pat Quinn Quotes
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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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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Education is so important.
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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
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I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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It was talked about, it was planned and now was the time to go.
