Janis Joplin Quotes
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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We didn't have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
