Patton Oswalt Quotes

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Patton Oswalt

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Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

John C. Mather

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Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

Joel Embiid

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You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.

John McEnroe

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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Angela Duckworth

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If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Anita Baker

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I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I'm not a real moron.

Steve-O

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An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

Jason Robards

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I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

Don McLean

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When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Peter Gallagher

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I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.

Shaun White

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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

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