Joan Baez Quotes
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Ground zero for me is audio.
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Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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What people with disabilities want is to relate. This is something unique. It makes people who are closed up in the head become human. The wonderful thing about people with disabilities is that when someone important comes, they don’t care. They care about the relationship. So they have a healing power, a healing power of love.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
