Patti Smith Quotes

My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.

Patti Smith

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Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.

Angelique Kerber

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But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

Sun Ra

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People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don't feel pressure. I realize there's a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I'm just playing the way I always have.

Trae Young

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Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Mircea Eliade

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I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.

Lu Guanqiu

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I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

Donald Hall

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My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.'

Christopher McCulloch

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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

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The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Phil Donahue

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I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the booming food community in Los Angeles. Our food is gutsy and soulful.

Rick Bayless

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As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

Ricky Whittle

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