Pat Oliphant Quotes
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
