Patti Smith Quotes

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

Patti Smith

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I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

John Hawkes

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The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Joel Sternfeld

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'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things.

John Knoll

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My wife, my daughter, and my son have my first loyalty and always will.

Michael Cohen

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You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

John Turturro

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As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

Sonam Kapoor

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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

Steven Van Zandt

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The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Robert Darnton

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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

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I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

Robin Wright

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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.

Lucy Dacus

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