Patti Smith Quotes
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
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If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
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I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
