Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
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I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.
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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
