Patti Smith Quotes
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.
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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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I've not come to defeat or to put down anyone... I've come to win the hearts of the people of Rajkot. People should recognize the character of Congressmen who deprive people of Rajkot of water.
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Visca Barcelona, Visca Catalunya and Visca Argentina, motherfuckers!
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The government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.
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Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.
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Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.
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I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.
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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
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I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.
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A day doesn't go by where I don't create something.
