Janet Weiss Quotes
You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.
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The Republican ticket in 2012 was Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Whatever again you think of them, that's not a dumbed-down ticket.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
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I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
