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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Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.
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My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.
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One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
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I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
