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Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
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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 emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. It was a trauma.
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I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
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