Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Mary Beth Patterson

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Energy

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Me

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Up
  • Want
  • Paris

• Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music.

  

  Lizzo
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Architecture

• Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.

  

  George Packer
  • Work
  • Power
  • Sexy

• I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Famous
  • Paris