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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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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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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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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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We're telling the story of 'Daredevil.' In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
