Janis Joplin Quotes
I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.
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A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
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So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
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When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?
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Three English bulldogs count for one kid.
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I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes.
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When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.
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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
