Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.
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When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
