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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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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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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Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.
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I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
