Patti Smith Quotes
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
Landon Donovan -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess -
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
Aaron Yoo -
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
Patrick Ness
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
Salman Rushdie -
It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.
Joan Blades -
I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.
Alice McDermott -
Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
Marian Wright Edelman -
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Douglas Jerrold -
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
Patti Smith