Patty Smyth Quotes
I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
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I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
