Patrick Swayze

Actor

1952-08-18

Quotes by Patrick Swayze

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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• When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

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• When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

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• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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• I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

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• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

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• I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

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• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

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• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

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• I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

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