Patti Smith Quotes

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

Patti Smith

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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Jill Scott

MusicMeWritingPlaceFirstPoems

My detractors would be mistaken to believe that the allegations against me that had no basis and were all lies would distract me. I continue to do my job.

Jejomar Binay

JobMeBelieveAgainstWouldLies

When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.

John Cena

WorkPeopleMeGoWantOut

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

John Corbett

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Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Andrew Bird

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I'm never funnier than when I'm heartbroken or terrified.

Melanie Scrofano

NeverHeartbrokenThanFunnier

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

Melania Trump

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'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

Steve Kazee

AmazingMeThinkWantKidPretend

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Matisyahu

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You know how I know I'm white? I can cry myself out of a parking ticket.

Michelle Wolf

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For me to even be talking about bikini confidence is crazy. If you had asked me a couple of months ago, I probably would have been like, 'what are you talking about...' so it's actually huge for me to even feel okay with putting a bikini on.

Jordin Sparks

ConfidenceMeCrazyTalkingYou

The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the earth. My first scene in a movie was with James Cagney, for goodness sakes. There I was, just out of the U.S. Navy without an acting lesson to my name.

Dean Jones

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