Patti Smith Quotes
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
