Patti Smith Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
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For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
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There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
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He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!
