Patti Smith Quotes
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
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The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.
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Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That's one of my favorite things about Paul F. Tompkins' 'Dead Authors' podcast is to be able to do impressions of people you've never otherwise think to do or get to do. I did Walt Whitman on there, and that was really fun.
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The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
