Patti Smith Quotes
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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A good leader must be fair.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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It was at St. Mary’s that I met and learned to love the greatest man I’ve ever known. His name was Brother Matthias. He was the father I needed. He taught me to read and write - and he taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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I would love to go off and do a movie with Judd Apatow or do another 'Mean Girls,' but to me, it's whatever the story is.
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The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.
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Oh for a fleet that could look the proudest power in Europe in the face, on this our rightful Western Ocean! But alas, it must be left to posterity — at the age of 50 I can't expect to view it unless from above.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
