Joan Baez Quotes
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I've never been a partier.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.
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I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
