Patti Smith Quotes
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I love bayou life.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
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My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.
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I remember as a kid during devotional in church when the “old” people would say they woke up with a song on their heart. I guess “old” people wake up with poems on their hearts too.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
