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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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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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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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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There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.
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When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
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As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.
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Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
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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.
