Patti Smith Quotes
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I was an expert horseman.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I get bored easily.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
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In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
