Patti Smith Quotes

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

Patti Smith

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VisionMoneyPeopleMeEndSomeone

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Joe Jonas

MusicPlayGoClubWanna

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Amber Benson

MeThinkSelfFeelNiceHollywood

I look, absolutely, like I'm going to sell you insurance.

Stephen Colbert

InsuranceYouLookGoingSellLike

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

Tony Campolo

TimeBelieveCreationI BelieveMay

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

Tom Sizemore

GetChancesSecondSecond Chances

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

Tom Steyer

HorseAttentionYouSayWantRace

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

HollywoodWholeJustLikeThing

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

Ron Wyden

BusinessWordsPeoplePriceOilBuy

Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.

Roma Downey

GirlRedCityGunBattleHood

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

Mary Pilon

Social MediaCuriosityMediaDigital

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Miles Teller

PurposePeopleTeamConflictPlay

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Lucas Neff

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