Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
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I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?
