Patti Smith Quotes
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Quotes to Explore
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
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I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
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God uses rescued people to rescue people.
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
