Patty Griffin Quotes
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
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I don't wear makeup when I'm home. I love taking a break from it.
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If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.
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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.
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I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.
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You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
