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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• 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.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• 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.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Me
  • Lives
  • Medicine

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Party
  • Healthy
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• 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.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Different
  • Dad
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Girls

• I was never very happy at school.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Happy
  • Never

• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Car
  • Memory

• If I get good stories, then I don't mind working for multi-starrer movies.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Good
  • Mind

• The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Done
  • Period

• Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

  

  Jonathan Jackson
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

  

  Janis Joplin
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