Patti Smith Quotes
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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Children are not children. They are just younger people.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
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In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.
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I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.
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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
