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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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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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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
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Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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Paths that cross will cross again
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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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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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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