Patrick deWitt Quotes
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
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All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
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You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
