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You Quotes by Patti Smith
- Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person…
- In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's…
- I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
- Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
- What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common…
- If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
- Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each…
- You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
- Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other…
- I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are…
- People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of…
- Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it.…
- The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do…
- Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide