Patti Smith Quotes
You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
Quotes to Explore
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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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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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.
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The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
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Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
