Patti Smith Quotes
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.
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Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.
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My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton
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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.
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Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.
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I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
