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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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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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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God answered the prayers of animals.
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If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.
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Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
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He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!
