Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.Mary Beth Patterson
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
Frances Fisher -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
Carlos Slim -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
Jack Nicklaus
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
Walt Mossberg -
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
Samuel P. Huntington -
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
G. Willow Wilson
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
Sam Underwood -
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
Madeleine Stowe -
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White -
'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
Yelawolf
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We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
Joe Klein -
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom -
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.
Michel Foucault -
I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
Wendy E. Long -
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
Mary Beth Patterson