Jane Siberry Quotes
Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
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Eutrapelia. 'A happy and gracious flexibility,' Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.
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Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
