Patty Griffin Quotes
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I need to build my team around my weaknesses.
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Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
