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Patti Smith Quotes

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 30, 1946

Topics

Suffering Understand Hand Who Those

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yourself Rest Christian Violence You

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

Country Important Show Portugal Our

Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.

Robert Weinberg

Parents Mind Weird Big Kids Readers

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

Political Difference Between About

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

Michelle Dockery

Theatre Learn Doing You Behave Just

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

Food Together Energy Security Linked

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

Change Great Political Now Need

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

Life God Sky Fight Tired Me

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Me Someone Guilt Say Because Favor

It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.

Doing You Kind Street Knowing Hard

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

Back House White Cuba White House

God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.

God People Design Billion Recognized

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