Patch Adams Quotes
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
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I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.
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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
