Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

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• It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Amazing
  • Just
  • Now

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • People
  • Taste
  • Hotels

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Write
  • Had
  • Them

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Great
  • Find
  • New York

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Doing
  • Open

• The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Work
  • Country
  • Desire

• It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

  

  James Bovard
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• Like most successful businesses, you and your employees have a vast knowledge base and expertise in your vertical, as well as a lot of great video and text content to prove it. So, why not monetize your expertise and create digital products and membership courses?

  

  John Rampton
  • Great
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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