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.
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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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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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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 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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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.
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When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.
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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.
