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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The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
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Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
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My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
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It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of.
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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.
