Alan Patricof Quotes
My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'
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I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.
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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
