Patti Smith Quotes

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

Patti Smith

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• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

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• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

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• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

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• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

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• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  

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• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
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• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

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• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
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  • Own

• I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
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• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

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• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

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• I'm really proud of the Time's Up movement, and I hope it continues and it grows stronger and that it can really be established.

  

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• I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

  

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• I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.

  

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  • Capital-gains system

• A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Choices