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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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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I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.
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I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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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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