Patti Smith Quotes
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.
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My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
