Janis Joplin Quotes
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
