Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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Dijeron que antiguamentese fue la verdad al cielo;tal la pusieron los hombres,que desde entonces no ha vuelto.En dos edades vivimoslos propios y los ajenos:la de plata los estraños,y la de cobre los nuestros.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
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When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
