Joan Baez Quotes
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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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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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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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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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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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 I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
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I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
