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 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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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'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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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
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With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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A turning point in modern history.
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... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
