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.
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Music is my release.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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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.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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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.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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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.
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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.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
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What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
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Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
