Patti Smith Quotes
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
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I don't know how you do it. I've put together some really impressive deals, but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing: a Big N' Tasty for just a dollar. How do you do it? What's your secret? Together Grimace, we could own this town.
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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
