Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.
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I hate exercise.
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.
