Patti Smith Quotes
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I was an expert horseman.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I get bored easily.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
