Patrick deWitt Quotes
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Bling is good.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
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I am not gay. I never have been gay.
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'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow,And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low:So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,No more through rolling clouds to soar again,View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
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Along the way, I learned a lot about being told I didn't have the right skills for the jobs I wanted and how to overcome the setbacks and keep pushing forward. This is why I've become an Ambassador for LifeSkills, a programme created by Barclays to help one million young people get the skills they need for work.
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Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
