Patrick deWitt Quotes
I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
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I know a lot of people weren't expecting 'BLACKSummers'Night' to be what it was, just like a lot of people weren't expecting 'Embrya' to be what it was. People will listen to what I've been a part of and see what I've done.
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
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Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
