Janis Joplin Quotes
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.Janis Joplin
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
Abel Korzeniowski -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
Jackie Chan -
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
Fairuza Balk -
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Garrett Fort
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
Adam Peaty -
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
Oscar Robertson -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Randa Haines -
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
Halle Berry
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette -
Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
Barry Silbert -
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles -
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig -
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
Aaron Rodgers -
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
Dan Brown
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People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.
Karen Armstrong -
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton -
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
Jennifer Carpenter -
Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
Emmanuelle Riva -
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
Janis Joplin