"Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies."

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Source : "Patti Page Looks Back On 40 Years" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. July 15, 1988.

Patti Page

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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
“I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.”
“The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1849). “Household Education”, p.256
“As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.”
“I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.”
“There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?”
“Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.”
“Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life.”

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