Patti Smith Quotes

I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.

Patti Smith

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I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

Jerry Seinfeld

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My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

John C. Mather

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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

John Burroughs

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My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Jerry Ferrara

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Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.

Robert Rinder

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Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

Stedman Graham

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I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Tony Curtis

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If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Tom Waits

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My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Roman Polanski

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Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Michael Rosenbaum

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I want to buy my mother a huge house in New Orleans so she can open up a bed and breakfast.

Luke James

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I like to think of myself as a creative player.

Christian Pulisic

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