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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After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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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.
