Patch Adams Quotes
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
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My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
