Joan Baez Quotes
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
