Patti LaBelle Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
Washed Out -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln -
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
Dan Futterman
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Wayne Dyer -
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson -
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele -
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot
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You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.
Liza Minnelli -
The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
Cormac McCarthy -
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan -
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
Avicii -
Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
James Surowiecki -
The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?
Matt Apuzzo
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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
Jesse Ventura -
I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.
Bill Burr -
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
Charles Dickens -
Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.
Neal Stephenson -
You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
Patti LaBelle