Patti Smith Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.
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For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.
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Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
