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.Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi -
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Sam Heughan -
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman -
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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.
Edith Pearlman -
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.
F. Sionil Jose -
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin -
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll -
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
Daniel Ek -
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.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Bear Bryant -
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.
Vanessa Kerry -
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde -
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane -
I've been training quite hard.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin -
I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
John King -
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
Matthew Gray Gubler -
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
Elaine Paige -
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.
Patti Smith