Joan Baez Quotes
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
