Joan Baez Quotes
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik.
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
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So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
