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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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
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It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.
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I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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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.
