Patti Smith Quotes
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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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.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I hate competition.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
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I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
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Who believes in Aslan nowadays?
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
