Patton Oswalt Quotes

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Patton Oswalt

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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.

Jerry West

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The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

Joel Grey

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I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

Jennifer Warnes

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Racism has always existed, and a big part of it is people just not knowing others. I think humans change other human's minds, and it's hard for someone in the middle of America to hate Syrian refugees if they've been able to befriend them.

Maz Jobrani

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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

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I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

John Updike

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I used to literally collect friends that had hair like me. And it would start like this: 'What kind of products do you use?'

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.

Miles Teller

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Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Joseph Brodsky

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It's always great to add to your legacy.

Chris Jericho

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If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

Chen Guangbiao

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Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

Brendan Sexton III

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