Patti Smith Quotes
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I've been training quite hard.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies...It's our obligation and our right to make our environment as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.
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I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.
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In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
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I wouldn't say it's effortless for me to be glamorous.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.
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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
