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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Realize

• 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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• 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.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • High
  • Used
  • Extremely

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• 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!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Love
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • History
  • Best

• What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Book
  • Game
  • Balance

• When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge

• Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.

  

  Charles E. Fuller
  • World
  • God
  • Warfare

• With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art

  

  Joan Baez
  • Time
  • World
  • Heart