Patti Smith Quotes
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
Charles B. Rangel -
There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.
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The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.
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If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
