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.
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.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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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.
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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.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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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.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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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.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
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New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
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I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
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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.
