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.
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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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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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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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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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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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When you stop to take a minute and look at Queen Latifah's career, she came out of the box right. You know, 'Ladies First!' And she's been consistent with that message of female self-empowerment. She really has!
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.
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When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
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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.
