Janis Ian Quotes
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Writers are so important.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I love a good loser.
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I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
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Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
