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
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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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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 -
If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
Yayoi Kusama
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell -
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
John Caudwell -
As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.
Jenna McCarthy -
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran -
Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.
Colin Mochrie -
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