Patti Smith Quotes
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
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Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.
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I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
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Books think for me.
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But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you only actually have perfectly profound little moments like that in real life if you recognize them yourself, do all the fancy shot work and editing in your head, usually in the very seconds that whatever is happening is happening. And even if you do manage to do so, just about never does anyone else you’re with at the time experience that exact same kind of moment, and it’s impossible to explain it as it’s happening, and then the moment is over.
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The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
