Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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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.
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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.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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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.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Here’s my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic - they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.
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Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
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The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
