Patti Smith Quotes

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

Patti Smith

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I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Joel Osteen

BelieveGaySinI BelieveBeing

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Andy Stern

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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

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The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.

Tove Lo

GirlBestCrazySongThoughtYou

I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.

Rob Van Dam

IntelligenceSupportMeFactsKnow

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Roger Altman

StrongerMeanUrbanCitiesSafer

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Louis XIV

MeMoreSufferLikeTroublesShould

The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.

Josh Hawley

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I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Chris Pine

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Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

Pete Rose

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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Paul Theroux

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There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

Sheila Heti

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