Patti Smith Quotes

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Without

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

  

  Beanie Sigel
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  • Crazy
  • Building

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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  • Japanese

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
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• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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  • Band

• It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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  • Me
  • Gossip

• People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

  

  Joan Blades
  • People
  • Time
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• My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

  

  Maureen Dowd
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• I've been to 25 psychics so far. I've even gone to see a woman called 'the mother' who just hugs you.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Mother

• Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of the voices and get to that deep voice within.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Learning
  • Journey
  • Voice

• It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents. Spin Magazine, Vol. 10 No.4, 1994.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  

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