Patti Davis Quotes
I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
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All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.
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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!
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It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, "Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you."
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I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
