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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
