Patti Smith Quotes

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Dumb

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Calling

• I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • New

• My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Father
  • Party

• In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Trying
  • Chess

• Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Love
  • Control

• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Film
  • Weird
  • Industry

• I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • House
  • Wife
  • Water

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

• Well, my friends, the time has comeTo raise the roof and have some fun.Throw away the work to be done.Let the music play on.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Life
  • Loyalty

• With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

  

  Qiu Jin
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Responsibility

• Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

  

  Philip Selway Radiohead

• Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Real
  • Business

• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Building
  • Anger
  • Attack

• What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Important
  • Children

• I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

  

  Patti Smith