Patti LaBelle Quotes
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
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Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the gospel that had really helped him or given him a brighter look on life? Remember the feeling of peace and joy that followed? Have you ever taught someone the gospel and received that feeling of joy because he had accepted what you had been teaching? The thrill of missionary work!
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The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.
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I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
