Janis Joplin Quotes
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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I've had asthma my entire life.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
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Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
