Janis Ian Quotes
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
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In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
