Patti Smith Quotes
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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It is not easy to dress well.
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I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
