Patti Smith Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I am a big music nerd.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
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I never wanted fame.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
