Patti Smith Quotes
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
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All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
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We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
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We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
