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.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Health
  • Financial
  • Debt

• Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Sometimes
  • Cold
  • Skin

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Forget

• 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.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Family
  • Depression
  • Adolescence

• 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.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Country
  • Right
  • Wrong

• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Idea
  • Doing

• Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Attention
  • Value
  • Poetry

• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Gain

• Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Situation
  • Stronger

• I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Smell

• 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.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• 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.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dance

• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  

  Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Imagination
  • Goal
  • Garden

• From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Single
  • Health

• America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • America

• When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

  

  Patti LaBelle