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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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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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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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.
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I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
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Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.
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If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.
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The tragic capacity of the human race for going off course was a little balanced by the integrity of the animals who were always obedient to the law of their being. We were meant to love like that, thought Mary, simply because that's our law and we were told to obey it.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
