Patti Smith Quotes
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
Nadia Comaneci -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua -
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Yoko Ono -
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens
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You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush -
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Walter Isaacson -
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
F. Lee Bailey -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
Natasha Henstridge -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin -
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam
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I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
Katie Price -
I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!
Jason Ralph -
There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.
Claire Messud -
I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
Bill Mumy -
'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
George Benson -
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
Patti Smith