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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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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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
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If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
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There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
