Patti Smith Quotes
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Yoko Ono
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
B. F. Skinner
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Samantha Power
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
Susanne Langer
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
D. T. Suzuki
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
Frida Kahlo
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Patti Smith