Patty Duke Quotes
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi. They were Gadhafi devotees who were loyal to him and to the U.S. government with whom their leader reached a 'deal.'
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
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When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
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There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!
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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
