Patti LaBelle Quotes

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

Patti LaBelle

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MeDownRunTrueWillNever

I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense, but I thought that was my problem.

Andrew Breitbart

CollegeThinkingThoughtProblem

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Robert Redford

PoliticalYouKnowUtahBecause

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Amy Lowell

MaturityYouthCondemns

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

Amanda Schull

LifeDanceThinkYouCareerKnow

Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.

Stewart Udall

YearSalesNextQuarterIssuesAuto

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

Sinead O'Connor

ReputationChurchLongHouseWill

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Robert Anthony

HappyPeopleBeing HappyRiskBeing

My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he's traveled, and he's done a lot of stuff, and he's kind of got a been there, done that attitude. He's also been in the world. Del Toro's change was to have Hellboy bottled up in a room and mooning over the girl he can't have.

Mike Mignola

ChangeFatherAttitudeGirlWar

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Michael Shermer

ScienceDataEnoughYouNewWay

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

Lou Doillon

TeacherGreatArtDaySchoolCrazy

'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.

Bobby Moynihan

WorkGreatPeopleEnjoyYouMeet

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

Bob Iger

DecisionsBigBig BelieverBeliever

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