Patti Smith Quotes
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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Real luxury is customization.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.
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The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.
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When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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English is not my first language.
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People are ruthless, man.
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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Why not drive a snowmobile? I own an Artic Cat. We bought them because we enjoy doing things like that. I enjoy doing fun things, and that's definitely one of the things.
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The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.
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What I hate most about this year's Turner Prize is how environmentally bad it is with all these videos, tv monitors, big soundscapes. The artists bang on about collectivity but with climate change they're selfish and reckless. Next year let's have a carbon neutral Turner Prize!
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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
