Alan Patricof Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
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I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
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It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
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The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
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The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.
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I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.
