Patti Smith Quotes
Look around you, all around youRiding on a copper waveDo you like the world around you?Are you ready to behave?
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I want to marry after traveling alone, meeting many people, and experiencing a variety of things, and when I'm certain I can be responsible of myself.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.
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I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.
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Look around you, all around youRiding on a copper waveDo you like the world around you?Are you ready to behave?
