Patrick Swayze Quotes
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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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
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I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'
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For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.
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I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.
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My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.
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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.
