Patti Smith Quotes
I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Garrett Hedlund -
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong -
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
A.J. Styles -
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld -
As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
Olivia Colman -
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving Layton -
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig -
Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
Vicente del Bosque -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
Nate Parker -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence -
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
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I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
Nelson Mandela -
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
Zeljko Ivanek -
What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?
Will Ferrell -
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks -
We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness
Dalai Lama -
I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.
Patti Smith