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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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 think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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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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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary, because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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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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I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
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