Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Practices were tough.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
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Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
