Patti Smith Quotes
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
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If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
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I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice - very cliche actress.
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Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
