Janis Joplin Quotes
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
Valerie Plame -
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris -
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
Oscar Isaac -
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander -
Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
Karen Salmansohn -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
Kat Dennings -
He who frames the question wins the debate.
Randall Terry -
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd -
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
Laura Linney -
I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
Ed O'Neill -
Belinda lived in a little white house,With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.
Ogden Nash
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
Alan Perlis -
Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
Clare Balding -
My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
Mary Barra -
It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.
Mark Sanchez -
There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
Ben Schnetzer -
What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Ronnie to Nelson 'For a guy who snorted an entire car agency up his nose, you're one to talk about con games.'
John Updike -
I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Vaginal Davis -
My mission is to love human beings. ... Each day is the best day of my life.
Abdul Sattar Edhi -
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
Mark Twain -
Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
Janis Joplin