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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
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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Patricia Lee Smith
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.
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Blessedness is within us all.
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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'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.
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I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
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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 never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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