Patti Smith Quotes

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

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• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Training

• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Family
  • Learning

• I'll try anything once.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Anything
  • Once

• As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Different
  • Important
  • Want

• I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Women
  • Love

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Care

• One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Athlete

• Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

  

  Vernon Howard

• Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

  

  Emily Levine
  • Up
  • Age

• Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.

  

  Diego Godin
  • Together
  • Football

• Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Boring
  • Piano
  • Combination

• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Sorry
  • I Feel

• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Sorry