Joan Didion Quotes

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

Joan Didion

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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

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• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

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• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

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• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
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• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
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• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
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• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
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• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

  

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• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

  

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• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

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• I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

  

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• The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

  

  Jason Wu
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• Pleats and polos are not sexy.

  

  Monique Ganderton
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• Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...

  

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• I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Soul
  • Political
  • Faith