Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith.
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Related It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jo... SAM GRAVES A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. MILTON BERLE I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies,... MONICA CROWLEY Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant p... PATTI DAVIS I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her ... DANA SNYDER There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. "Bu... UNKNOWN You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, una... JEFF GOODELL One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her.... DAVE GOLDBERG Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard pr... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I've always been a big fan of Mariah Carey. I think it's her personality. As much as she has... JESSICA MAUBOY She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges... MOLLY SHANNON I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and s... ANNA DIOP Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to... DICK CHENEY Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife... OM PURI When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... AYELET WALDMAN Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she... ANGELINA JOLIE Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me ... JEFF FOXWORTHY There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him ... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t... IRA GLASS Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's be... LAUREN LONDON It is also somewhat sexist to think that she has to stop her career so Jim can be governor. What if ... ERIC HERZIK Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t... THE BIBLE I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her spee... REBECCA TRAISTER She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore ... CHERYL TIEGS She has grown, and her talent has come out. Her work is out there, a lot of her pictures have been p... JANET NOEL She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a... POPPY DELEVINGNE Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m... PETER USTINOV I've loved Patti LaBelle since I was a little girl. I love her so much because she's spontan... CECE PENISTON Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a... YOLANDA ADAMS I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smarte... JIMMY FALLON Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. HARPO MARX I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lo... NEIL TENNANT The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. CHUCK JONES What's not fascinating about 'Wonder Woman?' She's powerful. She's strong. She g... BETSY HODGES What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person o... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you get... DANIELLE BROOKS Rick Perry is a weak governor with a record of failure on the issues important to Texas. BOB GAMMAGE It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha... TEENA MARIE One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husb... LAURA WASSER And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bo... BIBLE I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work... SHERRI SHEPHERD A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith h... JAMES RANDI Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted wit... AUTRE NE VEUT If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her... ROBERT JOHNSON Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying... STEVE ERICKSON He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to? MICHAEL ONDAATJE In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away t... ALLISON ANDERS I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, bu... ELIZABETH WURTZEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dati... PATTI STANGER Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s... BEN SHAPIRO My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School a... BILLY ECKSTINE The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact op... KENNY LOGGINS I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go... TERESA HEINZ Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for som... DAISY RIDLEY We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes ... CYNTHIA HEIMEL I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finish... PADMA LAKSHMI I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perr... BLAKE FARENTHOLD I've known Hillary Clinton for a long time. She's trustworthy. She's ready from Day One ... BEN CARDIN Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplis... SAMMI HANRATTY Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. HITOPADESA What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she... GAL GADOT God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his he... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY She has never been involved in a scandal, she has carried out her duties superbly, we love her to bi... COLIN EDWARDS As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ... GEENA DAVIS The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given ... SARAH FERGUSON It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that... N.K. JEMISIN The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of ... TED NAIFEH Karen was always such a lawless rebel: carrying a gun in her purse, flirting with 14-year-old boys. ... MEGAN MULLALLY In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven va... RACHEL CUSK The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to recei... CHARLES PERRAULT We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go wi... BUSY PHILIPPS She has been a voice in the community for equality. I think her legacy coincides with her husband's.... DORIS WILLIAMS He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ... STEPHEN HARRIGAN I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I ... EILEEN FORD You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can... VIVIEN LEIGH A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman t... BARBARA CARTLAND He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondea... BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cu... DANNII MINOGUE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest wi... BRENDON URIE Intuition is what tells a wife her husband has done wrong before he thinks of doing it. SOURCE UNKNOWN Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's... DON BLUTH I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai... DIANE KRUGER I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has ... FELICITY JONES That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah... DOLLY PARTON I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience see... WENDY LIEBMAN I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... ROBERT WILSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think... LYNDON B. JOHNSON There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and ... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire he... KARLIE KLOSS I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He sa... LES DAWSON There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional... ANN NOCENTI
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PATTI SMITH I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. PATTI LABELLE The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice... PATTI SMITH I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot... PATTI STANGER I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ... PATTI SMITH I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They h... PATTI LABELLE Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental. PATTI JOHNSON I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth PATTI SMITH It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me fee... PATTI STANGER As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister. PATTI SMITH I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. 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PATTI PAGE Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably cra... PATTI SMITH I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to bl... PATTI SMITH I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a ma... PATTI STANGER If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gon... PATTI STANGER Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often somethin... PATTI SMITH I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appeas... PATTI SMITH I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that throug... PATTI SMITH Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a ... PATTI SMITH When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beau... PATTI SCIALFA I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I s... PATTI SMITH It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars. PATTI SMITH I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful... PATTI STANGER There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, ... PATTI SCIALFA As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. PATTI SMITH All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing. PATTI SCIALFA The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television. PATTI LUPONE All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not g... PATTI LABELLE I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. 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PATTI SMITH Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplin... PATTI SMITH For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your ... PATTI SMITH Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children. PATTI SMITH Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their b... PATTI STANGER I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through ... PATTI SMITH I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I d... PATTI SMITH I really do think snacking is the key to dieting. We know if you can steady your blood sugar, then y... PATTI MILLIGAN Since I won't get to go into their homes, I really need to see from this journaling what the meal si... PATTI MILLIGAN The goal is to get you off soda, off caffeine, and get the kids and all your families involved, too. 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PATTI SCIALFA It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because ... PATTI SMITH I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st... PATTI SMITH A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make some... PATTI LUPONE My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers we... PATTI SMITH I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date... PATTI STANGER My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly... PATTI SMITH My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a s... PATTI SMITH What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just tr... PATTI SMITH I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, ... PATTI SMITH If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people. PATTI SMITH I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs t... PATTI SMITH In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Ar... PATTI SMITH I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have th... PATTI LUPONE In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v... PATTI SMITH The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high ... PATTI SMITH I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I... 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PATTI SMITH I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. ... PATTI SMITH Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Br... PATTI SMITH Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's wha... PATTI SMITH Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick. PATTI SMITH I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at me... PATTI SMITH A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and ro... PATTI LUPONE My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The... PATTI LUPONE I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be ... PATTI SMITH Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more. PATTI SMITH We catered for 3,000 people. Three thousand! ANGELO PATTI The business just wasn't big enough for the three of us. ANGELO PATTI We made about $12 that day, which was pretty good back then. Harold Curry reached into the cash regi... ANGELO PATTI I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most s... PATTI SMITH I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have... PATTI SMITH I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, los... PATTI SMITH I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. ... PATTI SMITH I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merge... PATTI SMITH I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis a... PATTI STANGER I admire the kids being able to take this kind of pressure. 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I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we gro... PATTI STANGER The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair c... PATTI STANGER Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's n... PATTI SMITH What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h... PATTI SMITH Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to ... PATTI LUPONE Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and... PATTI SMITH I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't m... PATTI SMITH Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opport... PATTI ROBERTS What has happened is, not only has CEIFA not really worked as far as the formula goes, but it hasn't... PATTI PAWLING Glitter In Their Eyes, PATTI SMITH I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence. PATTI SMITH Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. PATTI SMITH It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on... PATTI SMITH Ask Me Anything. PATTI SMITH He's so humble, and he is always willing to do whatever you ask him to do. PATTI SMITH I don't expect a big crowd. But hopefully if this first meeting is interesting the word will spread. PATTI SMITH I have another son that's in Iraq right now. So, it's not all the way over for us. But, if we can ta... PATTI SMITH We used to have to use the senior citizens hall for Christmas concerts. PATTI BYERS I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orlea... PATTI LABELLE I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel wi... PATTI MILLIGAN The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the... PATTI SMITH My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li... PATTI SMITH Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. PATTI SMITH Everybody goes through the same thing; it doesn't matter what color you are. And Joss Stone just hap... PATTI LABELLE The only check is the goodwill of the agencies. PATTI GOLDMAN Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? PATTI SMITH I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this ... PATTI SCIALFA For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I t... PATTI SCIALFA I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't ... PATTI SMITH