Patti Smith Quotes
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
Kara DioGuardi
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
Dan Webster
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
Major Taylor
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane
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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young
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Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.
Don Yaeger
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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
Zubin Mehta
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I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football.
Priyanka Chopra
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith
