Patti Smith Quotes
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
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What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
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I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
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Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
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Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it.
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I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
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I wouldn't do go to another band.
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The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.
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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.
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I'm not a very analytical person.
