Patti Smith Quotes
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.
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In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
