Janis Joplin Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.
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I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
