Joanna Newsom Quotes
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
