From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I’m not exaggerating, remotely.
When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, ‘Well, I guess they are not interested in me.’ And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party.
If you can make people laugh, you know you’re getting it right; it’s an instant pat on the back.
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
It’s easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, ‘We’re going to get through this,’ it means a lot.
There’s nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can’t do that, you can’t be objective about your work. You can’t be conceited or cocky either, but you can’t be too modest either.
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O’Brien.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
There was one time when we were getting beat at Highbury, and our assistant manager Pat Rice came in shouting. Arsene, in front of all of us, just went ‘Pat! Sit down and be quiet!’
There are no pat answers – we’re pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don’t always apply.
Pat Toomey has worked to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns in this country, and that is just an outrageous position. Of all the kind of tough issues, this one should not be a tough call.
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
I have to stop myself sometimes and look at where my life is and pat myself on the back because I’m beating the odds.
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
I got turned onto the ‘Pat Garrett’ soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.
As soon as you know what you’re doing, you’re doing it wrong. That’s what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I’ve got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she’s a lovely mare.
I’m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
Lately, I’ve been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper.
Chris Jericho and I were really excited about teaming together, but we didn’t get to sink our teeth into what we could have done as a team. We really wanted to throw it back to the glory days of Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens. We were committed, we were coming up with team moves, and all of the things were made to work.
In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The ‘Pirate Prude’ EP and ‘Pat’s Trick’ played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn’t just listen to these records – we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.
When I came into the NBA, to be around Patrick Ewing and Derek Harper and Doc Rivers and Charles Oakley and Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy every day had a huge effect on me.
From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.
Every single member of my Artistry and Pat McGrath Labs Brand Teams – making this dream a reality would not be possible without them.
A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.
The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, ‘We love you.’
I’m as happy doing ‘Postman Pat’ as I am doing ‘Hamlet.’
There have been people who said I was a Pat Riley clone. But I don’t think that’s true. While I did learn a lot from him, I could never be him. I mean, we even dress so differently.
Philly was a great opportunity because I met Pat Shurmur. I was very grateful for that. Unfortunately I wish I had more football memories there. I didn’t play in any regular-season games, which sucks because I wanted to play.
They’ve just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there’s a proper time for a pat down, there’s a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it’s good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.
As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.
Pat O’Brien knows nothing. He’s on the Hell express.
Raising a child is a little like Picasso’s work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
Man, don’t get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn’t always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn’t mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.
I do like Pat Conroy, and ‘The Great Santini’ is an iconic book.
Some days I am fine but us mums are not robots, we are not perfect, we have to give ourselves a break and a pat on the back.
My memories of London Fashion Week are of starting out and not getting many tickets for fashion shows, but wanting to see them so much that I’d sneak in with my friends, people like Pat McGrath and Craig McDean.
When I was seven in Ireland I went to a barber’s on my own with my pocket money and asked for long hair with spikes on top like Pat Sharp and they gave it to me.
I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I’d watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
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