Patti Smith Quotes
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
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Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.
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One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
