Pat Quinn Quotes
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.
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I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
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I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.
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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
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Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
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Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires
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People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.
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Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.
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Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.
