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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Focus on the positives and be grateful.
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I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.
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The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
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Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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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.
