Patti Smith Quotes

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

Patti Smith

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MedicalWarParentsWorldSibling

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

Jessi Colter

LoveKindSameAudienceMissHis

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Angela Merkel

PeopleEqualPoliticiansCommitted

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Rory O'Malley

HeartMeBrainDoingStrongerYou

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Loretta Lynn

SadMountainsGrowing UpSadnessYou

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

Jonathan Hickman

ArtLongYouReadyGoNice

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Jonathan Haidt

SchoolResearchLateGoalMoral

When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.

Diana Rigg

MarriageMyselfPeopleMeSpeakUp

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

AmazingWritingSpeechCreateLeap

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

Drake

MusicMyselfThinkWayNeverSound

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

Clifford Geertz

SoulPeopleLiteratureRememberNew

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Alice Waters

ThinkingCareLandFarmersRealWho

I'm just thankful to be blessed with my talent.

Ty Dolla Sign

ThankfulTalentBlessedJust

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