Patty Griffin Quotes
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.Patty Griffin
Quotes to Explore
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus -
If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
Zhang Zhidong -
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
Gail Collins -
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
Randall Munroe -
I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
Abby Wambach -
It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
Kate Burton
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
If people hate me they hate me.
Uwe Boll -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda -
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
Natalie Dormer -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop -
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan -
We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
Sam Kean -
I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.
Eileen Ford -
I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.
Chris March -
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.
Patty Griffin