Janis Joplin Quotes
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
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I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
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For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.
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If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.
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You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
