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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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil in their time. We've watched Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan and communism and totalitarianism, and now it seems to be we're all battling against terrorism.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.
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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.
