Patti LaBelle Quotes
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
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Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana
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When you walk onto any set, it's usually primarily men. Which can be weird, especially when you're doing something emotionally challenging.
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First black Bond - that's my aim! That's the one!
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Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.
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I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
