Patty Smyth Quotes

I went through a period of being disillusioned with touring.

Patty Smyth

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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

Matthew Perry

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We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Jeff Buckley

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Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

John Robinson

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr

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I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

Spike Jonze

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All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

Stan Lee

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Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Tom Tancredo

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I always loved comedy, but in my mind, it wasn't a viable career option. I always thought, 'You go to college. You get a job, and then you pay off college.'

Michelle Wolf

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I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.

Luke Roberts

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I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Judith Viorst

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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

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