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I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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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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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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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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We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
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I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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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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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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