Joan Baez Quotes

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

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  • Busy

• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
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• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
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  • Push

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

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• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
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  • Good
  • Experience

• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Found
  • Go
  • Coworkers

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Me
  • Protect

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
  • Week
  • Plan

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Mind
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• I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'

  

  Nat Turner
  • Black
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• I want my flowers while I'm alive.

  

  Chubby Checker

• You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Up
  • Running
  • Trust

• When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering

• In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

  

  Kay Warren
  • Country
  • Children
  • Church

• I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

  

  Joan Baez
  • People
  • Music
  • Power