Pat Paulsen Quotes

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

Pat Paulsen

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Lonely
  • Afraid
  • Top

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

  

  Marjorie Holmes

• What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

  

  Margaret Carlson
  • Good
  • Bad

• Personal religion collapses with some individuals, because in their case it had long been growing hollow and thin. ... In reality there was little personal religion to lose, and that little would probably have been lost in some other way.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Growing

• I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Food

• As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Growing
  • Eye
  • Grapes