Patti Smith Quotes
I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
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I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.
