Pat Paulsen Quotes
I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.
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I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
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I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
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The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.
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Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
