Janis Joplin Quotes
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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The methods by which the 'Empire of Business' maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.
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Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.
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It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't really sure what the show was and what the dynamics were. If you look at the pilot for 'Seinfeld,' for example, it's practically unrecognizable.
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
