Patti Smith Quotes
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
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Play me no plays.
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Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.
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I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
