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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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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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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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
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A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
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If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
