Janis Joplin Quotes
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
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During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.
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Isn't everybody a 'Star Wars' fan?
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The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
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I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
