Patty Smyth Quotes

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Patty Smyth

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• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Country
  • Moment

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Rights
  • TV
  • Formula One

• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Great
  • Giving

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Great
  • Care
  • End

• I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Never
  • Legs

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• My parents have put in a lot of efforts for me. Whatever I am and wherever I am is because of them. I won't do anything to displease them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Parents
  • Efforts

• I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie

• Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feel

• Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Child
  • Walking

• Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Mother
  • France

• Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Way
  • Always
  • Thoughtful

• I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' - that's the only fiction show I'll take up on small screen. I'm extremely faithful to that show. That apart, I'm not likely to do anymore fiction on TV for the time being.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Humanity
  • Survive
  • Pointless

• I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.

  

  Chris Bonington
  • Love
  • Climbing
  • Professionally

• I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Long
  • Powerful
  • Attitude

• We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Habit
  • Process

• And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

  

  Patty Smyth