Pat Conroy Quotes
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't really yell at people.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
