Patrick Duffy Quotes

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

Patrick Duffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1949

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I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

Jesmyn Ward

HopeEmpathyPeopleFeelComplicated

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

Jennifer Palmieri

InformationBeingCommonBefore

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

Melissa Mathison

FamilyParentsMindFriendsUsWell

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

LifeLearnYouKnowWonderfulThem

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Angus Deaton

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

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'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.

Stephen Hawking

GreatFunThinkDisabilitySeriously

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

Stephen Malkmus

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All my knowledge comes from research.

Stan Sakai

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I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.

Johnny Flynn

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Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

Johnny Mathis

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In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

Diane English

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