Patti Smith Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
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For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
