Patti LaBelle Quotes
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
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Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
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I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
