Patti Smith Quotes
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
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If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
