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!
Samuel Lover -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai -
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 -
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 -
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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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky -
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
Rachel Cohn -
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard -
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.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Bayard Rustin -
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.
Karen Black -
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
I don't get hung up on weight.
Jack Black -
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
Ira Glass
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
Carl Lewis -
It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
Damian Woetzel -
I think every girl should have a tailor in her phone. It's part of why we beat ourselves up, or why shopping is so frustrating and hard: we have this assumption that when you take something off the rack, it will fit you.
Kerry Washington -
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
Virginia Woolf -
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
Kate Adie -
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith