Patrick McGoohan Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I will keep working hard!
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
