Patti LaBelle Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
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As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.
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I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.
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I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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I'll perform all the way to the grave.
