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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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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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.
