Patty Duke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
-
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
-
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
-
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
-
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
-
I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
-
I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
-
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
-
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
-
I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
-
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
-
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
-
I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
-
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
-
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
-
That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
-
We're very excited about Michael's decision to return to the University of Louisville. He's such an integral part of our offense and I look for him to have a huge senior season.
-
My life was ripped off!
