Janis Ian Quotes

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

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• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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  • Good

• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
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• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
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• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
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• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
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• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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  • Mother
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• Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

  

  Bridget Kelly
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• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

  

  Arsene Wenger
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• This is a great time for the 'guerilla marketer.' The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

  

  Dave Ramsey
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• Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
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• I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

  

  Janis Ian
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