Patti Smith Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.
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Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
