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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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.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
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I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
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People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.
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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.
