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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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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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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The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like Chris Kimsington.
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Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.
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People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it's hard to go out every night or make the effort to meet people in your hometown, if you haven't already met them all. Online there's this infinite possibility of meeting this person who, no matter where they live, you're meant to be with.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
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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.
