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Patti Smith Quotes

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

Patti Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 30, 1946

Topics

Work Youth Know Never Because Would

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

Jinder Mahal

School High School Wrestling High

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Maya Angelou

Together Wall Mean Ball Up Against

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Age War Think Die Problem Country

'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

Amy Bloom

Work People Thoughts Meant To Be

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

Science Ideas Dead Cemetery

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

Joy Mangano

Good Time Myself Next Bring Market

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Great Political Tradition You Find

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Judith Light

Women Powerful Realize How

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Jon Carroll

Time Think Someone Remember You

I am Toronto. Outside of where I'm from, I represent this city harder than anybody.

DeMar DeRozan

I Am City Outside Toronto Where Am

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Constantin Brancusi

Art Beginning Been Just Any

It's funny that I'm so popular with seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds.

Boy George

Funny Seven Eight Popular