Patti Smith Quotes
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Midi is my hobby.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
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My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
