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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This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that's celebrated.
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Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
