Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

Mary Beth Patterson

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• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
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  • Want
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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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  • Indifference

• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
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• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• You know, when you put out policy, like a 14-point plan? A lot of times in the first hour of negotiation, that 14-point plan goes astray, but you may end up with a better deal. That's the way it works. That's the way really life works. When I do a deal, I don't say, 'Oh, here's 14 points.' I got out and do it. I don't sit down and talk about 14 points.

  

  Donald Trump
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• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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  • Small
  • Modern

• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

  

  William Feather
  • People
  • Learning
  • Positive

• And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  

  Pearl Bailey

• I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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  • Small