Patty Smyth Quotes

I don't want to bore people with stories about being in rock n' roll and being a mother. Other singers do it. I can, too. I just do what I have to do. It's not that hard. It's just different.

Patty Smyth

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MotherPeopleI CanWantRockHard

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

Stephen J. Dubner

VotingConclusionsOwnBringKids

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

Trent Reznor

ExperiencePeopleBelieveCareBank

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

Roger McGuinn

RoadYouRiseMeetOpenMay

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Michelle Obama

LifeTimeYourselfPeopleStartYou

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Lucille Ball

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I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image.

Drake

LoveOpportunitiesYouKnowImage

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

Chris Fussell

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I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Christopher Hitchens

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One of the things I like and appreciate a lot is when somebody will come up to me and tell me how much Judge Doom terrified them as little children when he takes the shoe and puts it in the dip. They were literally scared out of their minds. I love that.

Christopher Lloyd

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I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

Antoine Fuqua

BestMenMeThinkPressureEmotions

There are some brands that we didn't expect to do well in India, like Alice + Olivia. But they sell like hot cakes because women here seem to love it.

Priya Sachdev

LoveWomenIndiaHotSeemSell

We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

Tim Cook

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