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 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 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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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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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!
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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.
