Patricia McBride Quotes

I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.

Patricia McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1942

Topics

GoodDanceJoyMeEnoughPerson

When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

Jim Otto

I AmHurtAnythingHearDerogatory

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Steve Coogan

GreatPeopleInterestingGreat People

I was a Rosie the Riveter. I'm really proud of that.

Ruth Duccini

ProudReallyRosie

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

Jonathan Levine

HomeMusicSongBuildingKindWay

I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.

Donna Air

TimeMoneySpringClothesCleaning

In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I was employed as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army. Throughout each of these jobs, we used different kinds of encryption to keep prying eyes out of information we handled.

Chelsea Manning

CommunicationEyesIntelligenceArmy

I can let the team do the talking for me.

Bob Paisley

MeTeamTalkingI Can

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

Priyamvada Natarajan

ScienceFaceGivingGiving UpDesire

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

Tom Bodett

FunnyThinkLaughKnowPrettyWell

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

Richard Cohen

FenceIntellectualNothingOutKeep

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

Junot Diaz

LovePeopleBookStoryLossPlan

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

LifeLiveWoodsFactsLearnDie

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