Patti Smith Quotes

There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.

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• When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Think
  • Fashion

• I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • Smart
  • Lawyer

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • You
  • Tough

• I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Man
  • Find
  • Looking

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• My family are my friends.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Friends

• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Me
  • Mean
  • Fantastic

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Message

• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Write
  • Ambition
  • Four

• I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Look

• Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

  

  Lauren Hutton
  • Home
  • Girl

• Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Love
  • Lusty

• I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Tomorrow

• There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.

  

  Patti Smith
  • World
  • Believe
  • City