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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To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
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Die Pflicht der Kantianer verhält sich zu dem Gebot der Ehre, der Stimme des Berufs und der Gottheit in uns, wie die getrocknete Pflanze zur frischen Blume am lebenden Stamme.
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
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Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.
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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.