Patti LaBelle Quotes
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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My career is my girlfriend.
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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
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Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
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You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.
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I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
