Patricia MacLachlan Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
