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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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
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George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
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All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
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The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
