Patty Smyth Quotes
Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
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I love to eat.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
