Patrick Stump Quotes
Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
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To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.
