Patti Davis Quotes
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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When I was quite young... I began to suspect there must be flaws in my sense of reality. It seemed to my dim sense of confusion that things often blended one into another, and the Law of Excluded Middle merely opened up a void wherein anything was possible. But I had been produced to focus on objects (things) and not on systems (processes).
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
