Patti Smith Quotes

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Patti Smith

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I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

John Hamburg

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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

Tony Parsons

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'CSI's been a great blessing for me. It's been a platform that's allowed me to go around the country and the world, really, and speak on issues of disability, but I've never - I'm a professional actor, so I studied for years; I do theater. I never want to disrespect what got me here.

Robert David Hall

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I'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.

Marvin Gaye

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It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

Mike Colter

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Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

Mike Krzyzewski

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A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

Michael Moore

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I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's nothing I can do. They're five years in on a 20-year sentence. They went in at 16, they'll get out at 36. That's a lifetime.

Draymond Green

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I keep things pretty simple.

Chris Isaak

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I've gotta check, but I think I'll be the first UFC fighter in history to have the lead role in a big movie.

Brian Ortega

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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Antonio Tabucchi

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