Patrick Swayze Quotes

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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.

  Patrick Swayze

  Positive, Death, Life Lesson

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• Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Surfing, Causes

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  Patrick Swayze

  Heart, Miracle, Soul

  "Patrick Swayze on Cancer: 'I Want to Last Until They Find a Cure'" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2008.

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• I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

  Patrick Swayze

  Beautiful, Keys, Going Away

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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.

  Patrick Swayze

  Giving Up, Winning, Matter

  "Patrick Swayze Dispels 'Reckless Reports' of Death By Radio Station" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. May 19, 2009.

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• All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

  Patrick Swayze

  Nice, Simple, Two

  "Fictional character: Dalton". "Road House", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  Patrick Swayze

  Knowing, Giving, Earth

  "Film heartthrob Patrick Swayze dies of cancer at 57". edition.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

  Patrick Swayze

  Nice, Want, Being Nice

  "Fictional character: Dalton". "Road House", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

  Patrick Swayze

  Energy, Wave, Accepting

  "Point Break" by Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. December 23, 2010.

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

  Patrick Swayze

  Success, Failure, Giving

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• I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

  Patrick Swayze

  Home, Last Words, Not Afraid

  Patrick Swayze's last words, as quoted by his family, prior to his death from pancreatic cancer, 2009.

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• When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dancing, Going Away, Seems

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• Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dance, Soul, Language

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• The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

  Patrick Swayze

  Steps, Enough, Feels

  "Fictional character: Johnny Castle". "Dirty Dancing", August 17, 1987.

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• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  Patrick Swayze

  Running, Challenges

  "Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Garner, Daniel Barenboim", www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2009.

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• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  Patrick Swayze

  Alive, Chasing, Staying

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• Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Sick, Sense Of Humor

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  Patrick Swayze

  Funny, People, Looking Good

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My work... is my legacy.

  Patrick Swayze

  Legacy

  Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi Swayze (2009). “The Time of My Life”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

  Patrick Swayze

  Cancer, Mean, Together We Can

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• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  Patrick Swayze

  Artist, Past, Remember

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• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  Patrick Swayze

  Angel, Trying, Speak

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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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.

  Patrick Swayze

  Growing Up, Kids, Fighting

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip". Interview with Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

  Patrick Swayze

  Keys, Dancing, Found

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• A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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