Patti LaBelle Quotes

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Patti LaBelle

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• I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Secretary

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Think

• All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Want
  • New
  • New York

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Job

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Health
  • Health care

• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Difference

• What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Done
  • Game
  • Fear

• The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

  

  Felice Picano
  • School
  • Done
  • Goal

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Time
  • Black
  • Weird

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Action
  • Tears

• Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Strong

• I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Football

• A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

  

  Patti LaBelle