Patti Smith Quotes

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

Patti Smith

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Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

Jeffrey Archer

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I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Stephen Kinzer

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'Argo' is a work of art.

Tom Sizemore

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Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Mary Kay Blakely

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Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

Mike Ditka

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I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

Mick Mulvaney

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It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Jayne Houdyshell

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Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

Dawn Richard

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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

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There are moments when I invoke my dad and think about him on the podium, but in a very positive way. I don't feel at all intimidated by him. I feel like I've found my own voice.

Thomas Newman

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