Patti Smith Quotes
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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!
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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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.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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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.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.
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The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
