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.

Janis Joplin

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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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Me
  • Difference
  • Seeing

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Understand
  • Accept

• Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Religious
  • Islam

• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Knowledge
  • Adventure
  • Edge

• The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • World
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Learn

• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Japan

• It feels so good to tell the truth.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Tell

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Know
  • College
  • Questions

• Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Brotherhood

• The Devil is a woman.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Devil

• Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

  

  David Duchovny

• For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Women
  • Teachers

• Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

  

  Herodotus
  • Gift
  • Egypt
  • Nile

• 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.

  

  Janis Joplin