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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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
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My favorite Asimov works were the 'Foundation' books because the concept, at the time, was crazy, but psycho-history has now turned out to be an actual real thing. You can predict the actions of large groups of people once you understand, for lack of a better way to put it, their way of existing and their prejudices.
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That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
