Patti Smith Quotes
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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My mom and I are very close.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.
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Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
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I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.
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I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
