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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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.
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No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
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To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
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At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
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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.
