Joan Baez Quotes

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Doing

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Better
  • Influence
  • Eating

• 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.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • History
  • High

• St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Why
  • Mother

• I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

  

  Joan Baez
  • Why
  • Opinion
  • Humble