Patti LaBelle Quotes
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
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On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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I love being able to change from big films to small films.
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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
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I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.
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I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?
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They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.
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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
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I was very shy. I'm still shy.
