Patti Smith Quotes

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

Patti Smith

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I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

Joel Kinnaman

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I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

Joel Parkinson

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'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

Ann Leckie

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The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

Michael Bloomberg

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Communism will win.

Slavoj Zizek

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Climate change is crap.

Tony Abbott

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When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

Michel Martelly

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I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!

Jools Holland

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I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.

Chris Cornell

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Wilma Rudolph

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I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

Pink

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I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Philip Reeve

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