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.
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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!
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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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.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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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.
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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.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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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.
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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.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
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I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
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The war against terrorism is one we must win.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.
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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.
