Janis Joplin Quotes

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

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• I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Sex

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Scary

• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • People
  • America
  • Today

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Playing

• I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Crazy
  • Playing
  • Characters

• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Parents

• Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • America
  • Present

• The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Flower
  • Forest
  • Savage

• It requires strength of character to act upon one's ideas; it requires no less strength of character to resist being seduced by them.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Character

• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Children
  • Grandparents

• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Together

• Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Husband
  • Discussing

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are more resistant to roadside bombs, its leadership is fighting for a proposal that would have the opposite effect on roads here at home: a measure sought by environmentalists that would force automakers to make vehicles sold domestically much lighter and, thus, more vulnerable in collisions.

  

  Deneen Borelli
  • Home
  • Environment
  • Proposal

• I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

  

  Anne Morice
  • People
  • Action
  • Imitate

• I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

  

  Janis Joplin