Janis Ian Quotes
'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.
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I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.
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I never throw things out because they are old. I wear my favourite clothes until they are indecent.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
