Patty Smyth Quotes
It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
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When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
