Clara Ann Fowler (Patti Page) Quotes
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
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One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.
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What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.