Janis Ian Quotes
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
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On n'exporte pas la démocratie dans un fourgon blindé.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
