Patti LaBelle Quotes
Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.
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I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
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Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
