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Up Quotes by Patti Smith
- If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt…
- Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
- My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond…
- Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
- Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
- As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
- My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and…
- 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…
- You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
- I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play…
- I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the…
- When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this,"…
- Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong