Patti Davis Quotes

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

Patti Davis

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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  • Happy
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• When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
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• We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

  

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• I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Just
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• I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Strong
  • Honor
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• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  

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  • American
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  • College

• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Great
  • Think
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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
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• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

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• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
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• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

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• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

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• I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

  

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• When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

  

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• There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

  

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• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  

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  • Writing
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• I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

  

  Dina Merrill
  • House
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• My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

  

  Patti Davis
  • Father
  • Birthday