Patti Smith Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
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I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.
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Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
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Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
