Patti Smith Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
Dana Carvey -
Music is my release.
Ed Westwick -
I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan -
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
Salmon Portland Chase -
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston -
Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
Wadah Khanfar -
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Randall Terry -
After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
Hank Sauer
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
Ed Stoppard -
I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
Yakov Smirnoff -
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe -
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
Lady Gaga
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky -
My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.
Joe Sacco -
I don't follow fashion. I need people to style me because I'm pretty clueless about it and I don't really care. I pretty much wear the same outfit every day when I'm not working.
Megan Fox -
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
Christopher Alexander -
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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