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.

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• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
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• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
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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.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
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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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
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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.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
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• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
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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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Power
  • Truth

• It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Soul
  • Think
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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.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
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• Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • 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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
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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.

  

  Edmund White
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• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
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• I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Yes

• A little oil makes machinery work easy.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Work
  • Easy
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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  

  Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Things

• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Strong

• If you really want something, you'll make it work.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Work

• One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • Beautiful