Patti Smith Quotes
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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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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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.
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I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.
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When people say 'Black Lives Matter,' that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter; it just means all lives matter, but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
