Joan Baez Quotes
With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.
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It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art
