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 think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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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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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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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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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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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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If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
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Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
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I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
