Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Mary Beth Patterson

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• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Men
  • True
  • Age

• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Deep
  • Pool

• How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

  

  Jeff Goldblum

• Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Life is

• My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Life
  • Style