Joan Baez Quotes
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Whatever team I go to, I'll be excited to go.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
