Jane Siberry Quotes

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

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• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
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• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  

  Rachael Ray
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• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

  

  Frances Wright
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• There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
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• If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

  

  Wale
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• My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

  

  Fred Willard
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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  

  Gene Tunney

• Blessed are the persecuted And blessed are the pure in heart Blessed are the merciful And blessed are the ones who mourn

  

  Joan Baez
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• We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

  

  Jodi Rell
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• I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

  

  Jane Siberry
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