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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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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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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I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
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It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
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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.
