Patti Smith Quotes

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

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• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
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• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Important
  • Culture

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Without
  • Imagery
  • Furniture

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Business
  • Help

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

  

  Anna Popplewell
  • Home

• As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

  

  Mike White
  • Director
  • Controlling

• Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • History
  • Together

• I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids