Joan Baez Quotes
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
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Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
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I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.