Alan Patricof Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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