Joan Baez Quotes
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
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It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'
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I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.
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Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
