Janis Joplin Quotes
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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A good husband makes a good wife.
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It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
