Patti Smith Quotes
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
Quotes to Explore
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
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You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
