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Beth Ditto Quotes

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Beth Ditto

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1981

Topics

Myself Voice Confident Body Person

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

Robert Jarvik

Intelligence People Ridiculous Bright

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

Jeff Kinney

Father Mother Home History Library

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Robert Crais

Great Past Rise Above Rise Drama

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

Michael Sata

People Living Will Try Uplift

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Law Democracy Rule Of Law Talk Rule

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Joseph Rotblat

Security Argument Nuclear Weapons

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

Jordan Gavaris

Work I Am Optimism Me World Hard

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Dean Acheson

I Am Say Will Office Employment

People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.

Cliff Curtis

Racism People Me New Zealand Arts

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.

Bre Pettis

Education School Me Think Generation

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Brene Brown

Compassion Looking Someone Bend Need

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Anthony Fauci

Been Number Treatment Effective Had