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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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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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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As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
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The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.
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I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
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What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
