Patti Smith Quotes
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.Patti Smith
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
Naomi Scott -
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock -
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
Idina Menzel -
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
K. D. Lang -
I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
Edgar Wright -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
T. J. Perkins -
You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
Manuel Moroun -
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Ed Markey
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama -
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
Candis Cayne -
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
Zachary Quinto -
I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
Taylor Momsen -
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. Wolfe Gilbert -
I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
Jackie Evancho -
You must know what you are capable of.
Zhang Yimou -
We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith -
I don't get Many things right the first time In fact, I am told that a lot Now I know all the wrong turns And stumbles and falls Brought me here.
Ben Folds -
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
Patti Smith