Patch Adams Quotes

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

Patch Adams

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TodayClothesYouHouseIntention

I don't think I'm a slacker, but I don't have aspirations to, like, conquer Hollywood. Or the world. Or anything.

Jesse Plemons

WorldThinkConquerHollywoodLike

Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.

Stephanie Coontz

FamilyRelationshipAloneTimeNeed

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Steven Rattner

GovernmentOutStayLiberalsShould

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Simon Fuller

MeCreateNowUpLong-TermGoing

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Rodney Dangerfield

DayManReadingFaceLibraryBlind

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

TrainingMeMatterTryExploreReal

Every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

SonManOwnEvery ManEveryWorks

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

Dree Hemingway

WorkMyselfHouseReadyParisKind

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

Chris Evans

ChessNothingEverythingMoveMarvel

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

Brandon Stanton

ThinkImportantTryKidLevelGet

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Anthony Eden

WarConflictEgyptArmed

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Petina Gappah

BroadcastingOnlyReporterZimbabwe

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