Janis Ian Quotes
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.
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Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.
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I think it has a vibe because we're all so different and individual... so it's fantastic when we come together as a group. Then at the same time we're all coming from the same place - Idol. We all went from nothing to something in two months... so we understand each other.
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The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
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The Tribune (28 March 1986).
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Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
