Patrick Henry Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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I respect all the fighters. I respect Jon Jones. I respect Chris Weidman, but I'm here for working.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I will not, I cannot justify it.
