Patti Smith Quotes

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

Patti Smith

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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Jerry Pournelle

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But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

John Jewel

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I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Amy Sedaris

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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

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I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Rodney Mullen

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A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

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I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

Lorde

MoneyOldAlwaysFinalIvyBeen

It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

Lisa Hannigan

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We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.

Joshua Henry

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It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.

Jason Day

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My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Jonathan Hickman

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I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

Dawn Richard

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