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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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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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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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
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I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
