Important Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image “My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Life Public life
I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible. — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public. — Nagma Copy Share Image
I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else. — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
The idea that my life would be something I shared with the public wasn't just something that I assumed - it was something that… — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else… — Victoria Principal Copy Share Image
I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image