Patti Smith Quotes
I voted for Obama. I was very happy when he won. But Obama hasn't really been able to effectively do anything that has made me... He hasn't helped the environment. He didn't close Guantanamo Bay. He went deeper into Afghanistan.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?
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I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.
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I voted for Obama. I was very happy when he won. But Obama hasn't really been able to effectively do anything that has made me... He hasn't helped the environment. He didn't close Guantanamo Bay. He went deeper into Afghanistan.
