Pat Paulsen Quotes

I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.

Pat Paulsen

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• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Reason
  • End

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Would
  • Been
  • Macho

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fear
  • Choices
  • Chance

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Product
  • Agree
  • Software

• I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Think
  • Action
  • Movies

• That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • Wife
  • Silly

• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Women

• The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Great
  • Practice
  • Moral

• I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Process
  • Forgiveness
  • Event

• I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Literature
  • Elements
  • Mundane experiences

• Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Forget
  • Share
  • Quote

• Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Business

• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Style
  • See

• I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.

  

  Pat Paulsen