Patrick Chan Quotes
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
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We don’t really want to know what soldiers go through in combat. We do not really want to know how many children are being molested and abused in our own society or how many couples—almost a third, as it turns out—engage in violence at some point during their relationship. We want to think of families as safe havens in a heartless world and of our own country as populated by enlightened, civilized people. We prefer to believe that cruelty occurs only in faraway places like Darfur or the Congo. It is hard enough for observers to bear witness to pain. Is it any wonder, then, that the traumatized individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and that they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?
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The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.