Patti Davis Quotes
My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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I am still full of ambition.
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When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.
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I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.
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You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.
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My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
