Patrick Swayze Quotes
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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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 got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I wanna live.