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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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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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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Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
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I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
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I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.
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All my work is about how it feels to look.
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Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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Business must be a force for good in the world.
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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.
