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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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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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
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I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
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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.
