Patrick Henry Quotes
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
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The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.
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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
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I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
