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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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.
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We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.
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No state legislature ever built a great university.
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I just don't like travelling very much.
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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.
